Poetry Terms
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- Onomatopoeia
- A word whose sound imitaes or suggests its meaning
- Folk Ballad
- A short, musical, narrative poem with an oral tradition, often about tragic love or heroism
- Enjambment
- The running over of a sentence or thought from one line to the next
- Personification
- Assigning human qualities to an object, idea, or animal
- Free verse
- Poetry which has no regular rhythm or rhyme scheme
- Hyperbole
- An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect
- Imagery
- The words or phrases an author selects, using sensory details, to create a picture in the reader's mind
- Lyric
- Poetry which expresses the speakers emotions and thoughts
- Diction
- An author's choice of words based on their correctnes, clarity, or effectiveness
- Scanning
- Marking the stressed and unstressed syllables and the number of feet in a line of poetry to determine if the rhythm of the poem has a regular, measurable pattern
- Blank verse
- Unrhymed iambic pentameter
- Haiku
- A seventeen syllable, three-line poem, usually about nature, with a suggestion of deeper meaning
- Stanza
- A group of consecutive lines in a poem that create a single unit
- Refrain
- The repition of a line in a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of a stanza
- Figurative language
- Language that creates a special effect or feeling by comparing, exaggerating, or meaning something other than what it first appears to mean
- Rhyme scheme
- The pattern formed ny assigning letters to each new end rhyme in a poem
- Meter
- The patterned repitition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
- Parallelism
- The repitition of phrases or sentences that are alike in structure or meaning
- Tone
- A writers or speakers attitude toward their subject
- Sonnet
- A 14-line lyric poem of iambic pentameter and a set rhyme scheme
- Parody
- A form of literature intended to achieve a comic effect by mocking a particular literary work or its style
- Metaphor
- A comparison of two or more things not using like or as
- Couplet
- Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and usually express a completed thought
- Alliteration
- Repitition of initial consonant sounds
- Allusion
- A reference in literature to a famous person, place, or thing from the bible, mythology, or other literary work
- Assonance
- The repition of vowel sounds without repition of consonants
- Iambic pentameter
- A metric line consisting of five feet of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- Similie
- A comparison of two unlike things using the words lire or as