Poetry Terms
1. Alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound of sound group.
2. Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things in which a comparison may be based.
3. Assonance: resemblance of sounds
4. Consonace: correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds
5.Ballad: a simple narrative poem of folk origin,composed in short stanzas and adopted for singing Consonance
6. Blank Verse: unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in english dramatic, epic,and reflective verse.
7. Figurative Language: Speech of writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech
8. Free Verse: verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
9. Haiku: a major form of Japanese verse written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7, and 5 syllable, an employing highly advocate allusions and comparisons often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons
10. Imagery: the formation of mental images figures; or likenesses of things, or of such images
11. Lyric Poem: a short poem of song like quality
12. Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story and has a plot
13. Ode:a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalt or enthusiastic
emotion
14. Rhyme:identity in sound of some part, especially the end of words or lines of verse
15. Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like
16. Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet form used by shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
17. Peterarchan Sonnet: a sonnet from popularized petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme scheme, as cdecde or cdcdcd.
1. Alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound of sound group.
2. Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things in which a comparison may be based.
3. Assonance: resemblance of sounds
4. Consonace: correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds
5.Ballad: a simple narrative poem of folk origin,composed in short stanzas and adopted for singing Consonance
6. Blank Verse: unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in english dramatic, epic,and reflective verse.
7. Figurative Language: Speech of writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech
8. Free Verse: verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
9. Haiku: a major form of Japanese verse written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7, and 5 syllable, an employing highly advocate allusions and comparisons often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons
10. Imagery: the formation of mental images figures; or likenesses of things, or of such images
11. Lyric Poem: a short poem of song like quality
12. Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story and has a plot
13. Ode:a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalt or enthusiastic
emotion
14. Rhyme:identity in sound of some part, especially the end of words or lines of verse
15. Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like
16. Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet form used by shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
17. Peterarchan Sonnet: a sonnet from popularized petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme scheme, as cdecde or cdcdcd.
