Poetic Techniques
a number of lines that divide a poem into sections?
Stanza
What is the definition of white space?
Using the page, spaces between words, indentions, etc. to create effect in a poem.
What is White Space?
Using the page, spaces between words, indentions, etc. to create effect in a poem.
What is a Haiku?
A poem that has a certain amount of syllables per line /5/7/5/
Single Rhyme
Two words that rhyme but also have the same amount of syllables.
Rhyme Scheme
a pattern of rhyme in a stanza or poem.
What is the defanition of Similes?
A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a Free Verse?
Poetry which does not require meter or rhyme scheme.
A short poem that expresses feeling.
What is list poetry?
a form of poetry that listed words or phrases.
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words
Alliteration
What is a Rhyme?
When two or more words have the same sound
A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
What is a Sonnet?
A fourteen-line poem that states a poet’s personal feelings, a sonnet follows the abab/cdcd/efef/gg
Poetry that defines a word or an idea creatively.
Definition poetry
What is an Assonance?
the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
What is a Personification?
Gives human qualities to non-human ideas or objects.
What is Consonance?
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry (but not at the beginning of words)
A poem that does not require meter (regular rhythm) or a rhyme scheme.
Free Verse
What is Epic poetry?
An epic is a long adventurous story of a hero.
A poem which states the sadness about the death of an important person.
Elegy
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
Hyperbole
The use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe.
Onomatopoeia
What is a Limerick?
A humorous verse of five lines, lines one and two, and five rhyme. As do lines three and four, lines one, two, and five have three stressed syllables; lines three and four have two.
Rhyme that happens in a single rhyme
Internal rhyme