Poetry Terms
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- Rhyme
- Repetition of accented vowels and sounds that follow them
- Symbol
- A noun that stands for itself and something beyond itself
- Personification
- Inanimate object that is given human-like characteristics
- Dramatic Monologue
- Poem in which a speaker adress one or more silent listeners; often a specifc problem is adressed
- Dramatic Poetry
- Poems that use dramatic themes
- Haiku
- Three line,17 syllable poem-5,7,5-about nature and seasons
- Lyric poem
- Poetry that doesn't tell a story but expresses a speaker's emotions
- Limerick
- A nonsense peom; bawdy, rhyming with scheme abba
- Figurative language
- An imaginative comparison between two seemingly unlikely things
- Blank Verse
- Poetry written in unrhymed imabic pentameter
- Consonance
- Repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables
- Extended Metaphor
- A metaphor that is extended over several lines
- Sonnet
- A 14 line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter. With rhyming scheme ababcdcdefefgg
- Metaphor
- Figure of speech containing an implied comparison
- Concrete poem
- A poem in which words are arranged to form a picture
- Ballad
- A song that tells a story
- Quatrain
- A stanza or poem of 4 lines often rhyming
- Couplet
- Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- Alliteration
- Repetition of an initial sound
- Epic
- Long stories focused on great deeds of someone
- Image
- Language that appeals to the senses
- Refrain
- Repeated group of lines
- Similie
- A figure of speech that compares two things using like or as
- Onomatapoeia
- A sound that relates to an action
- Rhythm
- Musical quality in language produced by repetition
- Free Verse
- Poetry that doesn't have a regular meter or rhyming
- Meter
- Generally regular-patterend of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
- Assonance
- Repetition of a vowel sound in stressed syllables
- Stanza
- Group of consecutive lines in a poem