Poetry Terms 2
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- Onomatopoeia
- The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
- Poetry
- Imaginative writing in which language, images, sound, and rhythm combine to create a special emotional effect.
- Refrain
- In some songs and poems a line or group of lines repeated at regular intervals.
- End-stopped line
- A line in which a pause occurs naturally at the end of a line.
- Irony
- The difference between the way things seem and the way they actually are.
- Meter
- Rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern.
- Simile
- A figure of speech that uses the words, like or as, to directly compare two seemingly unlike things.
- Run-on-line
- In poetry, a line in which the meaning continues beyond the line.
- Rhyme
- The repetition of the same, or similar sounds.
- Repetition
- The repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or lines.
- Figurative Language
- Imaginative language used for the effect and not to be taken as the literal truth.
- Assonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds.
- Lyric Poem
- A poem that expresses a personal thought or emotion. Most lyric poems are short and present vivid images.
- Imagery
- Language that appeals to the senses. Imagery is the combination or collection of images in a work of literature.
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech that compares or equates two basically different things.
- Narrative Poem
- A poem that tells a story.
- Rhythm
- The pattern of beats made by stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem.
- Alliteration
- The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginning of words.
- Concrete Poem
- A poem shaped to look like its subject. The placement of letters, words, lines, and punctuation creates a striking visual effect.
- Limerick
- A humorous five-line poem that follows a specific form: three long lines (1,2,& 5) that rhyme and two short lines (3&4)that rhyme. A limerick also contains a regular rhythm, or pattern of beats.
- Haiku
- A three-line poem, usually on the subject of nature, with five syllables each in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second line.
- Image
- A picture or likeness that is created with words. Images are most often visual, but they may appeal to any of the five senses.
- Theme
- The central idea of a literary work, usually expressed as a generalization about life.
- Stanza
- A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.