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WIMS-7LA-Poetry Voca
WIMS - 7LA - Poetry Vocabulary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| poetry | one of the three major types of literature. Uses concise, musical, and emotionally charged language along with imagery, figurative language, and sound devices |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| repetition | the use, more than once, of any element of language: a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence |
| stanza | a group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces |
| figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. Works by pointing out a similarity between two unlike things |
| personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| simile | a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| sound devices | techniques used by writers to give musical effects to their writing |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| meter | the rhythmical pattern of a poem |
| narrative poem | a story told in verse |
| haiku | a three line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines each have five syllables. The second line has seven syllables. It uses images to create a single, vivid picture - generally about nature |
| free verse | poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter. Lines of any lengths or with any number of stresses, or beats |
| lyric poem | a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feeling of a speaker |
| ballad | a song like poem that tells a story, often dealing with adventure and romance |
| concrete poem | a poem with a shape that suggests it subject |
| limerick | a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme. Three strong stresses in line 1,2,and 5 and two strong stresses in line 3 and 4. Rhyme scheme aabba |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem - each rhyme is assigned a different letter |
| theme | a central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work. A generalization, or a general statement, about human beings or about life |
| speaker | the character who tells the poem - the imaginary voice a poet uses when writing |
| image | a picture or likeness that is created with words |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five sneses |
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