Poetry Terms
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vballqueen8686 on March 10, 2011
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some basic poetry terms :)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 repetition of intitial consonant sounds | alitteration |
| a story told in verse | ballad |
| the point of view of a poem | speaker |
| a poem written in the shape of the poems subject | concrete poem |
| two consecutive lines of verse that rhyme | couplet |
| a solemn and formal lyric poem about death | elegy |
| long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or heroes | epic poem |
| three line Japanese verse; 5,7,5 -syllabled lines | haiku |
| highly musical verse that expresses the feelings or observations of a single speaker | lyric poem |
| a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else | metaphor |
| the feeling created by literary work | mood |
| a song like poem that tells a story, often dealing with adventure and romance | narrative poem |
| a formal lyric poem that honors a single subject or idea | ode |
| the use of words that imitate sounds | onomatopoeia |
| a non-human subject is given human characteristics | personification |
| writing or speech that appeals to the senses | sensory language |
| comparison of two unlike ideas using like or as | simile |
| a 14 line poem with a single theme and a specific rhyme scheme | sonnet |
| a formal division of lines in a poem and is considered a unit | stanza |
| anything that stands for or represents something else | symbol |
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