Poems
A song like narrative poem, usually featuring rhyme, rhythm , and refrain
Ballad
The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses
Rhythm
A stanza containing 8 lines
(ABBAABBA pattern)
Octave
The use of word whose *sound* suggest its meaning
Onomatopoeia
The use of words to create pictures,or *images* in your mind
Imagery
A 17-syllable , delicate , not rhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature
Haiku
Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of verse
e.g. Farm harm
Rhyme
A pair if rhyming lines
Couplet
Figures of speech that use the words *like or as* to make comparisons
Simile
Repetition of initial sounds
e.g. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Alliteration
Poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme, rhythm, and refrain
Free verse
Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
Repetition
A stanza containing 4 lines
Quatrain
Intentionally *exaggerated* figures of speech
Hyperbole
A 5-lined, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous
(AABBA pattern)
Limerick
The pattern of rhymes in a stanza of a poem
Rhyme Scheme
A figure of speech that makes a comparison equating 2 or more unalike things WITHOUT using like or as
Metaphor
A fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm
Meter
Gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human
Personification