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Poetry Vocabulary

Lit/Lang

TermDefinition
Poetry One of the major types of literature, the others being prose and drama
Rhythm A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
Repetition The action of repeating something that has already been said or written
Stanza a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
Metaphor describe one thing as if it were something else
Personification gives human qualities to something that is not human
Simile use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things
Symbol is anything that represents something else
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words
Repetition is the use of any element of language- a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence
Assonance the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different constants in stressed syllables
Consonance the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables
Onomatopoeia the use of words that imitate sounds
Rhyme the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Meter rhythmical pattern in a poem
Narrative Poetry poetry tells a story in verse- often have elements similar to those short stories
Haiku three- line Japanese verse form
Free Verse Poetry is defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern.
Lyric Poetry Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse
Ballads songlike poems that tell stories
Concrete Poems poems are shaped to look like their subjects
Limericks Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
Rhyming Couplets pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length
Created by: ReillySieber28
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