Quizlet Poetry Terms

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  1. alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words
  2. ballad: a poem in verse that tells a story
  3. blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter
  4. connotation: the attitudes and feelings associated with a word
  5. couplet: two lines of verse that rhyme a-a
  6. denotation: the literal or dictionary definition of a word
  7. diction: the author's choice of words
  8. elegy: a poem that states a poet's sadness about the death of an important person
  9. figurative language: language that communicates beyond the literal meaning of the words
  10. found poem: a poem that has not been deliberately composed but discovered, by chance, in some other context
  11. free verse: poetry free of any restrictions; poetry not tied to a particular pattern
  12. haiku: a Japanese form of poetry using natural imagery to convey a sense of mystery
  13. heroic couplet: two successive rhyming verses that contain a complete thought within two lines and usually consists of iambic pentameter
  14. hyperbole: using extreme exaggeration to make a point
  15. imagery: concrete details which appeal to the senses so that we can see or sense what is being written about
  16. limerick: a humorous verse of five lines
  17. lyric poem: a short poem that expresses emotional feelings
  18. metaphor: comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
  19. meter: the recurrence of a rhythmic pattern in poetry
  20. narrative poem: a poem that tells a story
  21. ode: a poem of high seriousness written on a variety of topics
  22. onomatopoeia: the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning
  23. personification: giving an animal or inanimate object human qualities or emotions
  24. quatrain: four rhymed lines that can take various forms
  25. refrain: the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem
  26. rhyme scheme: the pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza
  27. rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
  28. simile: comparing two things using "like" or "as"
  29. sonnet: a 14 line poem stating the poet's personal feelings
  30. stanza: a division of a poem based on thought or form
  31. verse: a unit of poetry such as a stanza or a line
  32. visual poetry: poetry that depends for its effects largely upon the layout of the words on the page