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Poetry Terminology
poetry terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stanza | Grouping of lines |
| Couplet | two-line unit with an aa rhyme scheme |
| traditional | fixed rules, regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme, sonnet, ode, haiku, limerick, epic |
| organic | no regular pattern of rhythm; may not rhyme, may use unconventional grammar, spelling or punctuation, free verse, concrete poetry |
| speaker | the voice that talks to the reader (may or may not be the poet) |
| Ode | lyric poem that addresses serious themes like justice, truth, or passage of time |
| Lyric poem | short poem with a single speaker expressing personal thoughts or feelings |
| free verse | no pattern of rhythm or rhyme |
| parallelism | use of similar grammatical construction to express ideas related or equal in importance |
| end-stopped-line | each line of the poem ends at a normal speech pause (comma, period, etc.)without a pause at the end of the line; called "enjambment" |
| Rhythm | pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables (stress=syllable that gets emphasized when speaking properly) |
| meter | a pattern of rhythm |
| foot | a unit of meter |
| scanning | process of marking the meter |
| rhyme scheme | regular pattern of rhyme |
| repetition | a sound, word, phrase or line that is repeated for emphasis or unity |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in words that do not end with the same consonant |
| alliteration | repetition of vowel sounds in words that do not end with the same consonant |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within AND at the ends of words |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| imagery | words or phrases that re-create sensory experiences for readers (make you want to or feel like you're using your sense of taste, sight, smell, hearing, or touch) |
| figurative language | indicates meanings beyond literal words-simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole |
| sonnet | 14-line lyric poem; strict pattern of rhyme and rhythm |
| English (Shakespearean) | ababcdcdefefgg, three quatrains (four-lined stanza) + a couplet, iambic pentameter |
| Ballad | originally composed orally and added or changed to fit the audience and used the everyday language and voice of the people; fictional, have characters, setting, and dialogue, use repetition and have regular rhyme and meter |
| traditional ballad | four-line stanzas with simple rhyme schemes, tells of a single tragic incident through dialouge |
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