Poetry Terms
-Alliteration: Two or more words in a poem that begin with the same letter or sound.
-Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things {comparison}
-Assonance: repetition or pattern of similar vowel sounds but with different end consonants
-Consonance: repetition of the final consonant sounds of syllables or important words
-Ballad: a poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale often has a repeated refrain
-Blank Verse: written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
-Figurative Language: a word or phrase that departs from everyday
-Free Verse: composed of rhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern
-Haiku: Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
-Imagery: consists of descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader
-Lyric Poem: a short poem with song like quality
-Narrative Poem: short poem, a poem which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings
-Ode: lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious nature
-Rhyme: repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words
-Rhythm: can be measured in terms of heavily stressed to less syllables
-Shakespearean sonnet: sonnet form used by shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme
-Petrarchan sonnet: divided into two quatrains and six line sestet
-Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things {comparison}
-Assonance: repetition or pattern of similar vowel sounds but with different end consonants
-Consonance: repetition of the final consonant sounds of syllables or important words
-Ballad: a poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale often has a repeated refrain
-Blank Verse: written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
-Figurative Language: a word or phrase that departs from everyday
-Free Verse: composed of rhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern
-Haiku: Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
-Imagery: consists of descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader
-Lyric Poem: a short poem with song like quality
-Narrative Poem: short poem, a poem which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings
-Ode: lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious nature
-Rhyme: repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words
-Rhythm: can be measured in terms of heavily stressed to less syllables
-Shakespearean sonnet: sonnet form used by shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme
-Petrarchan sonnet: divided into two quatrains and six line sestet
