SFHS Literary Devices and Terms(mainly poetry ones)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lyric Poetry | originally comprised of brief poems that were meant to be chanted to the accompaniment of a lyre. |
| Epigram | a short, satirical lyric usually aimed at a specific person |
| Elegy | a lyric on the occasion of a death |
| Ode | a long lyric in elevated language on a serious theme |
| Narrative Poetry | poetry whose main function is to tell a story. They contain plots, characters, setting, and point-of-view, and may be discussed in the same terms as a short story. |
| Dramatic poetry | composed to be chanted at religious rituals by a chorus—forerunner of tragedy. |
| Dramatic Monologue | a speech for a single character usually delivered to a silent auditor. |
| Dialogue Poetry | two personae speak alternatively |
| Free Verse | the simplest definition- free verse is verse with no consistent metrical pattern. The line length is a subjective decision made by the poet, and length may be determined by grammatical phrases, the poet's own unit of breath, or even visual arrangement on the page. |
| Concrete or Spatial poetry | a purely visual design for a poem. A concrete poem is one that takes the shape of the object it describes. |
| Fixed Forms | patterns for poetry that encompass an entire poem (ex. Sonnet or ballad) |
| Stanza Forms | consistent patterns in the individual units of the poem (stanza means room in Italian) |
| Couplets | paired rhyming lines (aabbcc...) |
| Heroic Couplet | a meter of iambic pentameter |
| Tercet | a three line stanza |
| Triplet | if the lines have a rhyming scheme of (aaa bbb ccc....) |
| Terza Rima | iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc |
| Quatrain | a four line stanza |
| Ballad Stanza | alternating lines of tetrameter and trimeter with the rhyme scheme abcb or abab |
| Common Meter | strictly iambic pentameter |
| Quintet | a five line stanza |
| Sestet | a six line stanza |
| Septet | a seven line stanza |
| Rime Royal | seven lines of iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abababcc. |
| g. Octave- | eight line stanza |
| Ottava rima | iambic pentameter lines rhyming abababcc |
| Haiku | 3 line fixed form consisting of five, seven, and five syllables. |
| Clerihew | a humorous form in which the first line is a person's name and has a rhyme scheme of aa bb. |
| Limerick | lines 1, 2 and 5 are anapestic trimester and lines 3 and 4 are anapestic dimeter with a rhyme scheme aabba. |
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