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Poetry Terms LCS
Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| acrostic | a poem which certain letters in each line form word. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words |
| Assonance | The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
| Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
| Blank verse | Bars without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter |
| Close rhyme | Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line |
| Couplet | Two lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit |
| Elegy | A poem of serious reflection typically a lament for the Dead |
| Epic | A long poem typically one derives from ancient oral tradition narrating the deeds and Adventures of heroic or legendary figures for the history of a Nation |
| Foot | A group of two or three syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
| Haiku | A Japanese poem of Seventeen syllables in three lines of five seven and five traditionally evoking images of the natural world |
| Lamb | A metrical foot consisting of one short or unstressed syllable followed by one long or stressed syllable |
| Internal rhyme | A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next |
| Limerick | A humorous frequently bawdy verse of 3 long and two short lines rhyming aabba |
| Line | A basic structural component of a poem |
| Lyric | Expressing the writers and motions usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms |
| Meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm and regularity to a poem |
| Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
| Poem | A piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly rhythmical usually metaphorical and often exhibit such formal element as meter rhyme and stanzaic structure |
| Poet | a person who writes poems |
| Refrain | a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza, chorus |
| Repetition | a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer |
| Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words o the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry |
| Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem, verse |
| Verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, tyically having a rhyme |
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