Poem Types
A narrative poem, often with a refrain.
What is a Ballad?
An address to a person or personified object not present
What is an apostrophe?
To have, to hold, to honor
What is asyndeton?
or
What is anaphora?
To have, to hold, to honor
What is asyndeton?
or
What is anaphora?
A stanza with four lines.
What is a quatrain?
A poem of lament and praise and consolation about a death.
What is Elegy?
An extended metaphor usually comparing two very unlike things
What is a conceit?
an understatement in which the negative of an antonym is used to achieve emphasis
What is a Litote?
Beautiful Disaster
What is an oxymoron?
A stanza with three lines.
What is a tercet?
Often written in praise of a person, object or an event.
What is an ode?
contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox
What is an oxymoron?
A stanza of two lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
And they all lived happily ever after.
(story element)
What is the denoument?
or
What is the resolution?
Poetry that idealizes natural country life in contrast to the urban life.
What is Pastoral?
A poem with fourteen lines and a specific rhyme scheme - ends with a couplet
(Be Specific)
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
A run on line in a poem, continuing into the next without a grammatical break.
What is enjambment?
"Yoda Speak"
ex. Into the water dove the boy.
What is anastrophe?
Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets
-Maya Angelou, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
What is polysyndeton?
The audience knows something that the characters for not.
What is dramatic irony?
Many poems fit in the category of this type of poetry:
elegies, odes, monologues
as long as they convey strong emotion.
What is Lyric poetry?
The substitution of a word which related to the object or person being named, in place of the name itself
What is metonymy?
Spondee, Iamb, Trochee and Dactyl are all examples of these.
What is a meter?
“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
What is a malapropism?
A speaking of one's thoughts aloud usually by a character in a play.
What is a soliloquy?