English Poem Vocabulary
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- Alliteration
- Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
- Assonance
- Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
- Ballad
- Song or song-like poem that tells a story.
- Blank verse
- Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
- Couplet
- Two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm.
- Epic
- Long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
- Free verse
- Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
- Haiku
- Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and usually seventeen syllables (five in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third).
- Hyberbole
- Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or creates a comic effect.
- Imagery
- Language that appeals to the senses.
- Lyric poem
- Poetry that expresses a speaker’s emotions or thoughts and does not tell a story.
- Metaphor
- A comparison of two unlike things without using the words like, as or than.
- Meter
- A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
- Personification
- Giving human qualities to an animal, object or idea.
- Poetry
- Type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the reader’s emotions and imagination.
- Refrain
- Repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines.
- Rhyme
- Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
- Rhythm
- Musical quality in language, produced by repetition.
- Simile
- A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as or than.
- Sonnet
- Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
- Stanza
- Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
- Symbol
- Person, place thing or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
- Tone
- The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character.