Enhance
Poetry Terms To Know
Alliteration- repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words.
Analogy- a similarity between like features of two things.
Assonance-identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Consonance- repetition of consonant sounds.
Ballad- a poem that tells a story.
Blank verse- a verse without rhyme, that which uses iambic pentameter.
Figurative language- speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning.
Free verse- poetry that is written without a fixed metrical pattern.
Haiku- a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Contains 17 syllables with three lines, 5,7,5.
Imagery- the usage of details and descriptions in order to create a sensory experience for the reader.
Lyric poem- a poem that tells a story and can be about anything.
Narrative poem- a poem that tells a story and can be about anything.
Ode- a poem that is written for an occasion or on a particular subject and is usually dignified and more serious as a form of poetry.
Rhyme- verse of poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the line.
Rhythm- movement or procedure wit uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like.
Shakespearean sonnet- sonnet form used by Shakespeare and moving the scheme.
Petrarchan sonnet- sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with a rhyme scheme and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes.
Analogy- a similarity between like features of two things.
Assonance-identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Consonance- repetition of consonant sounds.
Ballad- a poem that tells a story.
Blank verse- a verse without rhyme, that which uses iambic pentameter.
Figurative language- speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning.
Free verse- poetry that is written without a fixed metrical pattern.
Haiku- a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Contains 17 syllables with three lines, 5,7,5.
Imagery- the usage of details and descriptions in order to create a sensory experience for the reader.
Lyric poem- a poem that tells a story and can be about anything.
Narrative poem- a poem that tells a story and can be about anything.
Ode- a poem that is written for an occasion or on a particular subject and is usually dignified and more serious as a form of poetry.
Rhyme- verse of poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the line.
Rhythm- movement or procedure wit uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like.
Shakespearean sonnet- sonnet form used by Shakespeare and moving the scheme.
Petrarchan sonnet- sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with a rhyme scheme and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes.
