Poetry Terms
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- free verse
- poems with irregular rhythms and line lengths
- narrative poetry
- tells a story
- verse
- language of poetry
- simile
- uses like or as to directly compare two dissimilar things
- alliteration
- repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginning of words
- metre
- regular patterns of heavily and lightly stressed syllables
- ballad
- simple narrative that is sung and no author
- epic
- long narrative around hero
- repetition
- repeated use of words and sounds to stress points
- blank verse
- end words of lines do not rhyme, but in same metre
- run-on line
- a line in which the meaning continues beyond the line
- refrain
- a line or group that is repeated at regular intervals
- prosody
- study of verse, meters, rhymes, and general info
- prose
- everyday language
- assonance
- repetition of similar vowel sounds in the interior of the world
- poetry
- imaginative writing in which language, images, and sound combine to create a special emotional effect
- personification
- animal, object, or an idea given human characteristics
- hyperbole
- extreme exaggeration
- oxymoron
- a combination of words that contradicts itself
- stanza
- group of lines forming a unit in a poem
- ode
- expresses praise
- triplet
- three consecutive lines of poetry that express a single idea
- lyric
- shorter poem with imagination, melody, and emotion
- elegy
- involves poet's thoughts about death
- foot
- number of times of rhythm in a line
- analogy
- comparison between ideas that have similarities
- onamatopoeia
- the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
- end rhyme
- the repetition of two or more words that sound alike at the end of lines in poetry
- rhyme scheme
- the pattern made by the end rhymes
- imaginative language
- used for descriptive effect and not meant to be taken for literal truth
- versification
- form and structure of lines and stanzas
- dramatic poetry
- speakers dialogue in rhyme, rhythm, or metre
- concrete language
- specific words that appeal to the five senses
- quatrain
- four consecutive lines of poetry that express a single idea
- paradox
- an apparent contradiction that is somehow true on a deeper level
- couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry that express a single idea
- symbol
- an object or name that stands for something else
- apostrophe
- direct address to an inanimate object
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that compares two different things
- scansion
- the process of marking the metrical pattern of a poem
- sonnet
- lyric poem with a single thought with 14 lines with rhyming pattern
- allegory
- symbolic story in which characters, places, and events reperesent ideas, truths, persons, or real-life situations