Quizlet English Poetry Tems

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  1. Alliteration: The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
  2. Ballad: A songlike poem that tells a story; often one dealing with adventure or romance
  3. Cinquain: 5 lines
  4. Concrete Poetry: Is one with a shape that suggests its subject; Example; A poem written about flowers in the shape of a flower.
  5. Couplet: 2 lines
  6. Figurative Language: Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
  7. Free Verse: Poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme
  8. Haiku: A 3-line Japanese verse form; the first and third lines have 5 syllables and the second line has 7
  9. Heptastitch: 7 lines
  10. Hyberbole: A bold, deliberate overstatement, exaggeration, not indented to be taken literally
  11. Imagery: Language that appeals to the senses.
  12. Internal Rhyming: Words within a line or poetry rhyme
  13. Lyric Poetry: A highly musical poem that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
  14. Metaphor: An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing.
  15. Mood: The overall emotion created by a work of literature; image, dialogue, and plot can create it
  16. Narrative Poetry: A story told in poem; they often have all the elements of a short story
  17. Octave: 8 lines
  18. Onomatopoeia: The use of words whose sounds echo their sense.
  19. Oxymoron: Words that contradict each other.
  20. Personification: A figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive.
  21. Poetry: A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech & imagery designed to appeal emotion.
  22. Quatrain: 4 lines
  23. Rhyme: The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem.
  24. Rhyme Scheme: The pattern of end rhymes in a poem; a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
  25. Sestet: 6 lines
  26. Simile: A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles
  27. Speaker: The voice talking a poem.
  28. Stanza: In a poem, a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit
  29. Tercet: 3 lines
  30. Theme: The truth about life revealed in a work of literature
  31. Tone: The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or character; "tone of voice"