Poetry Terms
Alliteration- Assonance- resemblance of sound in words or syllables.
Consonance- Harmony or agreement among components.
Ballad- any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody.
Blank Verse- Unrhymed verse; specifically : unrhymed iambic pentameter verse.
Figurative Language- speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speechFree Verse- unrhymed verse without a metrical pattern.
Haiku- a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
Imagery- the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
Lyric Poem- A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. Most of the poems in this book are lyrics.
Narrative Poems- a poem that tells a story.
Ode- a long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form.
Rhyme- the matching of final vowel or constant sounds in two or more words.
Rhythm- the recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Shakespearean Sonnet- a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme.
Petrarchan Sonnet-a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octavewith the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one ofseveral rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.
Consonance- Harmony or agreement among components.
Ballad- any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody.
Blank Verse- Unrhymed verse; specifically : unrhymed iambic pentameter verse.
Figurative Language- speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speechFree Verse- unrhymed verse without a metrical pattern.
Haiku- a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
Imagery- the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
Lyric Poem- A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. Most of the poems in this book are lyrics.
Narrative Poems- a poem that tells a story.
Ode- a long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form.
Rhyme- the matching of final vowel or constant sounds in two or more words.
Rhythm- the recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Shakespearean Sonnet- a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme.
Petrarchan Sonnet-a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octavewith the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one ofseveral rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.
