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Poetry Terms 90210
poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| concrete poem | the arrangement of words has meaning to poeom |
| rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words |
| meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry |
| consonance | effect created when words share the same stressed consonant sounds but where the vowels differ. |
| feminine rhyme | stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable "nearly" and "clearly" or "meeting" and "greeting" |
| ambiguity | unclear, can be interpreted different ways |
| poem of address | a poem written like a letter to someone or something |
| apostrophe | a poem addreseed to a person or thing |
| elegy | a poem written to lament the dead |
| form | structural components of a poem. |