Poetry
Type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figurative language and imagery to appeal to the reader's senses and imagination.
What is Poetry
An expressive, nonliteral use for language
What is figurative language
The way a charcter speaks: it may depict origin or social group.
What is Dialect?
Poetry that has no set meter or beat: tries to capture that beauty of ordinary sounds in speech.
What is free verse?
Poetry that expresses a speaker's emotions or thought an does not tell a story.
What is lyric poetry?
A comparison between 2 like objects that use "like" or "as"
Rhyming words at the ends of lines of poetry
What is Rhyme Scheme?
Repetition of patterns/words or sentences that follow a similar pattern.
What is parallel structure/parallelism?
Very long and narrative poetry that tells a story of a hero who embodies the value of a culture.
What is Epic poetry?
A direct comparison between 2 unlike objects that says that one thing is something else.
What is a Metaphor?
Rhyming words within lines of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
Free verse form that contains 5 lines and a total of 31 syllables; 5 in the 1st, 7 in the 2nd, 5 in the 3rd, 7 in the 4th, and 7 in the 5th
What is tanka?
Song or songlike poem that tells a story
What is Ballad Poetry?
A comparison between 2 unlike objects that says that one thing is something else.
What is a extended metaphor?
Words that rhyme with exact vowel sounds on the stressed syllable.
What is exact rhyme?
Repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words.
What is rhyme scheme?
3 major forms of poetry.
What is Narrative, Dramatic, and Lyrical
Giving human characteristics to inaimate objects
What is Persoification?
The words in a poem rhyme nearly, but not perfectly
What is approximate rhyme?
What is symbol?