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Poetry Terms
Literary terms used in poetry and prose
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| simile | A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words “like” or “as.” It is a definitely stated comparison in which the author says one thing is like another: e.g., “The warrior fought like a lion.” |
| metaphor | The comparison of two unlike things: e.g., “Time is money.” |
| onomatopoeia | a word that makes the same sound as its name |
| personification | Giving human qualities to something that is not alive. |
| alliteration | The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound: e.g., “The twisting trout twinkled below.” |
| hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration: e.g., “The shot heard ‘round the world.” It may be used for either serious or comic effect. |
| stanza | A "paragraph" in a poem. A division between ideas within a poem. |
| allusion | A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing: e.g., “He met his Waterloo.” |
| idiom | an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own. |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. |
| imagery | Consists of the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses. |
| Couplet | two lines that rhyme and have the same syllable structure |
| Quatrain | a poem consisting of four line stanzas with a specific rhyme scheme. Some of the rhyme scheme used in quatrains are:abab, abba, aabb |
| Limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. |
| Free Verse Poems | an irregular form of poetry in which the content is free of traditional rules of verse (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme |
| Acrostic Poetry | The first letter of each line spells a word or words |
| Didactic Poetry | a form of poetry intended for instruction such as for knowledge or to teach. No typical rhyme schemes or other rules |
| Haiku | an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables or 17 syllables in all. Using focuses on nature. |
| Cinquain | a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of five lines that follow the rules: Line 1: Noun, Line 2: Description of Noun, Line 3: Action, Line 4: Feeling or Effect, Line 5: synonym for the initial Noun |
| Shape Poems | Poems that take the shape of their subject |
| Palindrome | A word, phrase, or other text whose letters spell the same thing backward and forward - Examples: mom, wow, poor Dan is a droop. |
| Fibonacci Poetry | Based on the Fibonacci number sequence. The sequence begins like this: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 this can be done either by writing the poem so that each line contains the number of words or syllables of its place in the sequence. |
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