Poetry Terms
Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Analogy: A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification
Assonance: In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
Consonance: The recurrence of similar sounds, esp. consonants, in close proximity
Ballad: poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture
Blank Verse: Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter
Figurative Language: a type of speech that consists of figures of speech, especially metaphors.
Free Verse: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Haiku: A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world
Imagery: Visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work
Lyric Poem: a short poem with a song like quality
Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story and has a plot
Ode: A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
Rhyme: Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
Rhythm: A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of a octove with the rhyme with the rhyme scheme abbaabba
Analogy: A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification
Assonance: In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
Consonance: The recurrence of similar sounds, esp. consonants, in close proximity
Ballad: poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture
Blank Verse: Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter
Figurative Language: a type of speech that consists of figures of speech, especially metaphors.
Free Verse: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Haiku: A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world
Imagery: Visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work
Lyric Poem: a short poem with a song like quality
Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story and has a plot
Ode: A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
Rhyme: Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
Rhythm: A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of a octove with the rhyme with the rhyme scheme abbaabba
