Poetry Terms & Devices
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | A sound device where consonant sounds are repeated |
| Assonance | A sound device where vowel sounds are repeated |
| Onomatopoeia | A sound device where the word sounds like what the action it expresses |
| Rhyme Scheme | A pattern of rhyming lines in a poem typically based on the end sound of a word. |
| Mood | The feeling that a literary work conveys to readers |
| Tone | The writer's attitude or feeling about his or her subject |
| Imagery | The practice of making vivid picturews with words, specifically by engaging the reader with sensory details |
| Metaphor | A tool that makes a comparison between two unlike things in order to demonstrate their similarities |
| Simile | A tool that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as |
| Meter | The rhythm established in a piece of poetry depending on the number of syllables in the line and how those syllables are accented |
| Personification | The practice of giving human or animal like qualities to inanimate object to make them seem more real |
| Form | The physical shape of the poem including how many stanzas there are, rhyme scheme, and rules |
| Enjambment | Where and how the lines of a poem are broken up |
| Hyperbole | An exaggerated statement, usually humorous |
| Symbolism | The use of symbols, objects, colors, creatures, or even people to represent important ideas and themes |
| Refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| Haiku | a Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables |
| Cinquain | a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. |
| Free form | no specific rules of rhyme, meter, or length, also called free verse. |
| Concrete | a poem with a shape that suggests its subject. |
| Spoken word | Free verse poetry in which the content is socially or politically motivated, using poetic literary devices and is performed in public |
| Acrostic | verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message |
| Ekphrastic | A poem inspired by a work of visual art. |
| Prose | ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse |
| Poetry | A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination. |
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