Poetry Terms
Alliteration: the repetition of the beginning sounds of words.
Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
Assonance: resemblance of vowel sounds
Consonance: correspondence of sounds
Ballad: a poem of folk narrative poem that is adapted for singing
Blank Verse: an unrhymed verse
Figurative Language: a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language
Free Verse: poetry that does not rhyme
Haiku: a poem which the first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7 syllables, and the last has 5 syllables
Imagery: appeals to activate the readers senses
Lyric Poem: a short poem of song like quality
Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story
Ode: a short poem of song like quality
Rhyme: two words which end syllable correspond to another
Rhythm: the arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables
Shakespearean Sonnet: also called English sonnet a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d
e f e f g g
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme
scheme a b b a a b b a and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as c d e c d e or c d c d c d
Analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
Assonance: resemblance of vowel sounds
Consonance: correspondence of sounds
Ballad: a poem of folk narrative poem that is adapted for singing
Blank Verse: an unrhymed verse
Figurative Language: a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language
Free Verse: poetry that does not rhyme
Haiku: a poem which the first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7 syllables, and the last has 5 syllables
Imagery: appeals to activate the readers senses
Lyric Poem: a short poem of song like quality
Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story
Ode: a short poem of song like quality
Rhyme: two words which end syllable correspond to another
Rhythm: the arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables
Shakespearean Sonnet: also called English sonnet a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d
e f e f g g
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme
scheme a b b a a b b a and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as c d e c d e or c d c d c d
