Poetry Term Definitions
Alliteration: The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Analogy: Is a point by point comparison between two things that are alike in some respect.
Consonance: Correspondence of sounds.
Ballad: A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited.
Blank Verse: Verse without rhyme.
Figurative Language: Language that communicated ideas beyond the ordinary literal meaning of words.
Free Verse: Poetry that does not contain a regular patter of rhyme and meter.
Haiku: A form of Japanese poetry that employs high allusions and comparisons in 5,7,5 syllables
Imagery: Consists of descriptive words and phrases that recreate sensory experiences for the reader.
Lyric Poem: A short poem in a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings.
Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story like a novel.
Ode: A lyric typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme: Is the occurence of similar or identical sound at the ends of two or more words
Rhythm: the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern; abab cdcd efef gg
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern; cdecde or cdcdcd
Analogy: Is a point by point comparison between two things that are alike in some respect.
Consonance: Correspondence of sounds.
Ballad: A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited.
Blank Verse: Verse without rhyme.
Figurative Language: Language that communicated ideas beyond the ordinary literal meaning of words.
Free Verse: Poetry that does not contain a regular patter of rhyme and meter.
Haiku: A form of Japanese poetry that employs high allusions and comparisons in 5,7,5 syllables
Imagery: Consists of descriptive words and phrases that recreate sensory experiences for the reader.
Lyric Poem: A short poem in a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings.
Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story like a novel.
Ode: A lyric typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme: Is the occurence of similar or identical sound at the ends of two or more words
Rhythm: the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Shakespearean Sonnet: a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern; abab cdcd efef gg
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern; cdecde or cdcdcd
