Poetry Terms:
Alliteration: is the repetition of a single letter in the alphabet or a combination of letters.
Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on a comparison may be based.
Assonance: rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of rhyming words.
Ballad: a narrative poem, of folk origin and intended to be sung.
Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Consonance: harmony of sounds .
Figurative Language: a word/ phase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.
Free Verse: poetry not following its form of Stanza.
Haiku: a japanese verse form of 3 unrhymed lines.
Imagery: descriptions and figures of speech.
Lyric Poem: words of a song.
Narrative poem: a poetry that tells a story.
Ode: lyric poem addressed to some person or thing and characterized by lofty feelings and dignified style.
Rhythm: the patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements of sounds or speech.
Rhyme: likeness of sounds at the ends of words or lines of verse.
Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet made up of three quatrains and a final couplet.
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet made up of a group of eight lines that rhyme "abba abba" and a group six lines that rhyme in various ways as "cde ded" or "cde cde".
Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on a comparison may be based.
Assonance: rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of rhyming words.
Ballad: a narrative poem, of folk origin and intended to be sung.
Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Consonance: harmony of sounds .
Figurative Language: a word/ phase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.
Free Verse: poetry not following its form of Stanza.
Haiku: a japanese verse form of 3 unrhymed lines.
Imagery: descriptions and figures of speech.
Lyric Poem: words of a song.
Narrative poem: a poetry that tells a story.
Ode: lyric poem addressed to some person or thing and characterized by lofty feelings and dignified style.
Rhythm: the patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements of sounds or speech.
Rhyme: likeness of sounds at the ends of words or lines of verse.
Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet made up of three quatrains and a final couplet.
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet made up of a group of eight lines that rhyme "abba abba" and a group six lines that rhyme in various ways as "cde ded" or "cde cde".
