poetry terms
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- lyric poem
- poetry presenting thoughts & feelins of a single speaker
- rhyme scheme
- the pattern of end rhyme in a poem. It is charted by assigning a letter of the alphabet. Ex a,b,a,b or a,a,b,b,
- free verse
- poetry without regular patterns of rhyme & rhythm
- repetition
- techinique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis
- internal rhyme
- a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse
- meter
- regular pattern of accented & unaccented syllabes
- epic poem
- a long story about heroic deeds & adventures usually addresses important concerns
- analogy
- a point-by-point comparison of two similar things to clarify the less familar of the two.
- ballad
- poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited
- refrain
- a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines
- personification
- the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
- stanza
- grouping of two or more lines. It is comparable to a paragraph in prose. Each __________ may have the same numbers of lines or numbers of varying lines
- extended metaphor
- figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things at some length. It may demonstrate a series of metaphors, respecting different aspects of a situation.
- onomatopoeia
- the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings. Ex. "bang bang"
- symbol
- person, place, or object standing for something beyond itself
- alliteration
- also know as a "tongue twister", it is a repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words, writers use this for emphasis and to give writing a musical quality.
- imagery
- visualizing with the reader's five senses
- limerick
- a short, funny poem made up of five lines. It usually has a rhyme scheme, composed of two rhyming couplets followed by a fifth line that rhymes with the first couplet
- rhythm
- patternor flow of sound created by arrangement of stressed & unstressed syllabes in aline of poetry
- simile
- a comparison of two things that have some quality in common (using like or as)
- speaker
- the voice of the poem
- couplet
- a rhymed pair of liones in a poem
- metaphor
- a comparison of two things that have some quality in common. Unlike a simile, this doesn't use like or as.
- narrative poem
- a story-telling poem