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Poetry Terms
Alliteration- the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.
Analogy- a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
Assonance- Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody, rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
Consonance- correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad- any poem written in similar style.
Blank Verse- unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse
Figurative Language- speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech
Free Verse- verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
Haiku- a major form of Japanese verse , written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
Imagery- the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
Lyric Poem- a short poem of song like quality
Narrative Poem- a poem that tells a story and has a plot
Ode- a poem intended to be sung
Rhyme- identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of a verse
Rhythm- movement or procedure with uniformed or patterned recurrence of a beat or accent
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 with an octave with the rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as CDECDE or cCDCDCD.
Analogy- a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
Assonance- Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody, rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
Consonance- correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad- any poem written in similar style.
Blank Verse- unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse
Figurative Language- speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech
Free Verse- verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
Haiku- a major form of Japanese verse , written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
Imagery- the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
Lyric Poem- a short poem of song like quality
Narrative Poem- a poem that tells a story and has a plot
Ode- a poem intended to be sung
Rhyme- identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of a verse
Rhythm- movement or procedure with uniformed or patterned recurrence of a beat or accent
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 with an octave with the rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as CDECDE or cCDCDCD.
