Poetry
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- haiku
- a 3 line, one stanza poem; traditionally Japanese and about nature; usually has a syllable count of 5, 7, 5 and lacks rhyme and metaphor.
- stanza
- like a paragraph, a section
- idiom
- a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people. "Where 'y'all goin' tonight?"
- iamb
- a foot with an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
- hyperbole
- a ridiculous over exaggeration- "His ego was as big as the earth."
- limerick
- A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba.
- ode
- a poem that commemorates or celebrates; written for an occasion; contemporary odes (neo-formal) are likely to be about contemporary more cynical or popular culture subjects
- foot
- a group of 2 or 3 stressed and unstressed syllables.
- connotation
- The personal or emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning.
- couplet
- a two line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines.
- free verse
- poetry with no rules, less structured, more organically
- personification
- when you give an inanimate object a human characteristic. "The trees whispered my secrets to him."
- blank verse
- metrically traditional, but without rhyme (Robert Frost often does blank verse)
- sonnet
- a 14 line poem, ababcdcdefefgg
- concrete poem
- a poem in the physical shape of it's subject
- ballad
- a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
- metaphor
- saying something IS something else, comparing
- alliteration
- repetition of the consonant sound
- acrostic
- a poem that spells out a word
- refrain
- a line in a song or poem that is sometimes repeated, a repeating line/verse in a song or a poem
- assonance
- repetition of the vowel sound
- Onomatopoeia
- A word imitating a sound. Example: 'buzz', 'moo' and 'beep'
- prose
- a poem that has more grammatical or longer sentences and/or more of a narrative.
- metonymy
- part of imagery; as opposed to metaphor, a comparison of similar things; naming something by it's attribute--where one thing stands for something larger. EXAMPLE-saying Washington when referring to the US gov.