Poetry Terms

• Alliteration: The repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of word or phrases.
• Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based.
• Assonance:The refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. 
• Consonance: A simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in state of response.
• Ballad: A narrative often of folk origin and intended to be sung. Consisting of simple stanzas, usually having a refrain.
• Blank Verse: Any verse composed of unrhymed lines all in the same meter.
• Figurative Language: Uses figures of speech a way of saying something other  than the literal meaning of the word.
• Free Verse: Form of poetry composed of either rhymed 0r unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.
• Haiku: Combines form content and language in a meaningful yet compact form, from the Japanese culture.
• Imagery: Poems that draw the reader into the poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which the reader already knows.
• Lyric Poem: Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a poet.
• Narrative Poem: Can be found in ballads, EPKS and Lays a narrative poem is just a story in a poem.
• Ode: A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject often elevated in style or manner and written in varied manner and written in varied or irregular meter also meaning to be sung.
• Rhyme: Identity sound of some part especially the end of words or lines of verse.
• Rhythm: A strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.
• Shakespearean Sonnet: A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding coupletin lanbic pentameter eith the Rhyme Pattern abab cacd efef ect.
• Petrarchan Sonnet: A sonnet consisting of anoctave with the ryhme pattern abbddbba followed by a sestet with the ryhme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd.

 

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