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.
Assonance - resemblance of sounds, also called vowel rhyme.
Consonance - correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad - a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
Blank Verse - unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
Figurative Language - speed of writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech.
Free Verse - unrhymed verse without a 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 of the seasons.
Imagery - the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of the 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 lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exaited or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme - identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
Rhythm - movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
Shakespearean Sonnet - a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
Petrachan Sonnet - Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnet's rhyme scheme divides the poems 14 lines into two parts, an octect (first eight lines) and a sextet (last six lines).
Analogy - a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
Assonance - resemblance of sounds, also called vowel rhyme.
Consonance - correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad - a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
Blank Verse - unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
Figurative Language - speed of writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech.
Free Verse - unrhymed verse without a 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 of the seasons.
Imagery - the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of the 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 lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exaited or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme - identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
Rhythm - movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
Shakespearean Sonnet - a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
Petrachan Sonnet - Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnet's rhyme scheme divides the poems 14 lines into two parts, an octect (first eight lines) and a sextet (last six lines).
