poetry terms
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| Acrostic | A poem organised by the intitial letters of a key word.
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| Alliteration | A phrase or nearby words begin with the same sound.
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| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds.
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| Ballad | A poem or song which tells a story.
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| Blank verse | A poem with rhythm and metre but no rhyme.
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| Calligram | A poem where the formation of the letters represents an aspect of the poems theme.
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| Cinquain | A poem containing 22 syllables on 5 lines.
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| Clerihew | A four-line comic verse with two rhyming couplets. The first line is the name of the person.
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| Concrete poem | A poem in which the layout of the words represents an aspect of the subject.
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| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry which are paired in length and rhyme.
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| Elegy | A poem usually for someone or something that has died.
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| Epic | A poem about the adventures of a heroic figure.
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| Free Verse | A poem without patterns of rhythm or rhyme.
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| Haiku | A Japanese form of poetry with 3 lines, 17 syllables.
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| Half-rhyme | Words which almost rhyme.
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| Internal rhyme | Words that rhyme within the lines of a poem.
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| Jingle | A short verse or rhyme often used in advertising.
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| Kenning | A poem written as list of characters of the subject without naming it.
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| Limerick | A five-line comic verse following the rhyming scheme a,a,b,b,a.
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| Metaphor | 'Imaginative substitution'. The writer describes something as if it were something else.
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| Narrative poem | A poem that tells a story.
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| Ode | Lyric poem usually addresed directly to the subject and written in second person.
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| Onomatopoeia | Words which echo the sounds of their words meaning. Examples of this are "Crash, Bang, Cuckoo"
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| Personification | A metaphor which attributes human characteristics to non- human subjects.
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| Poem | A text which uses features such as rhythm, rhyme, syntax, vocabulary, alleteration, and other figurative lanuguage and techniques to convey ideas in an intesnse way.
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| Rap | Oral poetry with a strong rhythm and rapid pace.
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| Renga | A series of Haiku.
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| Repetition | Repeated words or phrases for an effect on the reader.
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| Riddle | A question of statment, often in rhyme, which is a puzzle.
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| Rhyme | Words which have the same sound in their final syllable, are said to rhyme.
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| Shape poem | A poem which is laid out to take the shape of the subject of the poem.
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| Simile | The writer compares one thing to another using like or as.
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| Sonnet | A poem of 14 lines which may follow any rhyming scheme.
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| Stanza | A verse or set of lines of poetry, the pattern of which is repeated throughout the poem.
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| Tanka | Japanese poem based upon a Haiku but whith two additional lines to give a complete picture.
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| Exact rhyme | A type of rhyme with repeated end sound.
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| Slant rhyme | An "almost" rhyme, usually created through assonance of consonance.
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| Identical rhyme | A type of rhyme with repetition of the same word.
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| Internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within one line.
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| Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds within a series of words.
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