Poetry Terms 1
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is like a battlefield.
Simile
A metaphor that appears throughout an entire poem, built in several ways
Extended Metaphor
What type of rhyme is this?
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
Slant Rhyme!
The wind danced through the trees!
Personification
Wrote dark poetry with themes about insanity, madness, and lost love!
Edgar Allan Poe!
When the beginning consonant sound repeats!
Alliteration
A word that sounds like what it means. EXAMPLE: Buzz! Click! Bang! Whoosh!
Onomatopoeia
This famous poem was written by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
Do Not Go Gentle
O heart! heart! heart! is an example of this technique. So are the lines "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
Repetition
This poet wrote a semiautobiographical poem about his abusive childhood, using a waltz as his extended metaphor.
Theodore Rothke
A unified group of lines in poetry that commonly look like a paragraph
Stanza
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is a battlefield.
Metaphor
a specific kind of metaphor that uses "like" or "as"
Simile
an indirect or brief reference to another significant work, person, or event
Allusion
Although an award-winning and gifted poet, his success was always overshadowed by his famous wife.
Ted Hughes
Giving human characteristics to animals or non-living things.
Personification
Two lines of verse paired together
Couplet
a serious, reflective poem that mourns the death of someone
Elegy
The repetition of similar sounds and the pattern produced in a poem.
EXAMPLE: ABAB
Rhyme Scheme
This African-American poet is most recognized for her poem "We Real Cool"
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Free Verse
Overexaggeration, usually for humorous effed
Hyperbole
a 3-line stanza
Tercet or Triplet
What is the haiku syllable pattern?
5,7,5 syllable pattern!
A poet who wrote about his captain, o his captain.
Walt Whitman