Poetry Terms
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- Stanza
- the division of lines in a poem, considered a unit
- Haiku
- three lined Japanese verse-5-7-5
- Mood
- Feeling created by a literary work or passage
- Concrete Poem
- has shape that suggests its subject
- Blank Verse
- free verse with rhythm
- Prose
- the ordinary form of written language-not poetry drama or songs
- Sensory Language
- writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
- Meter
- Rhythmical pattern determined by the number of stresses on each line
- Poetry
- One of three major types of literature
- Rhyme
- repetition of sounds of words at the end of the word
- Free Verse
- poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter with no boundary
- Refrain
- a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song
- Narrative Poem
- A story told in verse
- Image
- words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the senses
- Lyric Poem
- highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
- Onomatopoeia
- the use of words that imitate sounds
- Limerick
- humorous, rhyming, five-lined poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme
- Theme
- message or purpose of a literary work
- Tone
- writers attitude toward his or her subject and audience
- Allusion
- reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work
- Rhyme Scheme
- the pattern of the rhyme in a literary work
- Repetition
- when a sound word or phrase is repeated over again
- Rhythm
- the pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a literary passage
- Personification
- non-human subject given human-like characteristics
- Alliteration
- the repetition of initial constant sounds