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| A type of literature that expresses or creates an emotional response or tells a story in specific form. |
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| Figurative language allows the reader to visualize what the author is describing in the poem. |
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| Imagery is language that creates a sensory impression with the reader's mind. The senses are taste, touch, hear, see, and smell. |
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| A device of figurative language that is comparing two unlike people, places, or objects using the words "like" or "as". |
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| A device of figurative language that compares two unlike people, places, or objects WITHOUT using "like" or "as". |
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| The figurative device in which animals, objects, or abstract ideas are represented as being human or having human qualities. |
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| The figure of speech that is a conscious exaggeration for the purpose of making a point. Hyperboles are not literal. |
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The formation and use of words to imitate sounds.
Example: crash, bang, buzz |
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The repetition of the initial sounds or stressed syllables in neighboring words.
Example: If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? |
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A stanza is a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song, similar to paragraphs.
Poems are classified according to the number of stanzas. |
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A refrain is a passage repeated at regular intervals, usually in a poem or song.
Refrain is a French word that means repeat.
In a song, refrain is often know as the chorus part. |
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Words that have identical or very similar sounds.
example: fat, cat, sat, hat |
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Repetition is the repeating of a word or phrase to add rhythm, or to emphasize a certain idea.
Example: "The wind hissed, hissed down the alley." |
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Rhyme scheme explains the rhyming pattern in a poem.
Examples of rhyme schemes are: AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCD.
Not all poems rhyme. |
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The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.
Rhythm can be created by rhyme, alliteration, and refrain. |
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| A name poem is one in which each letter of a person's name isused as the initial letter for one line of the peom. This poem doesn't need to rhyme. |
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| A traditional Japanese poem written in three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line 7 syllables, and 3rd lien has 5 syllables. Haikus are often about nature. |
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A diamond-shaped poem with 7 lines on two opposite topics.
The purpose is to go from the subject at the top of the diamond to another totally different (and sometimes opposite) subject at the bottom. |
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| The shape of the poem on the page symbolizes the content of the poem. |
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lUnlike other poetry with a structure, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
lDoes NOT have rhyme.
lFree verse poetry is very conversational-sounds like someone talking with you.
lA more modern type of poetry.
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