Poetry Terms 1
a Japanese poem consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables that is about some aspect of nature.
What is a Haiku?
a poem in which the ends of the lines have words that sound the same.
What is a rhyme?
the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It is important because it enriches, enhances, and elevates the written word. It can be used to influence, entertain, and motivate. Requires the upper level thinking skills of inference, and deductive reasoning.
What is Poetry?
repeats the beginning consonant sounds in words.
What is alliteration?
compares using like or as.
What is a simile?
a poem about death or dying.
What is an elegy?
a five- line poem with a definite rhyme scheme and rhythm. The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme, as do the third and fourth.
What is a limerick?
a poem that does not follow a specific rhythm or rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
describes something non-human with human qualities.
What is Personification?
a greatly exaggerated statement that is obviously not true.
What is a hyperbole?
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
What is a Stanza?
a poem developed by the letters of a word or name, which are used to begin the first word in each line of the poem.
is the arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza.
What is a rhyme scheme?
When poets and writers engage a reader’s senses of sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing by carefully choosing words that create an image.
What is imagery?
compares two different things saying the one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
paints a picture with words using literary devices. It often has a musical quality and expresses personal emotions or thoughts.
What is a lyric?
any poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
described as the beat and pace of a poem. It is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse.
What is rhythm?
a reference that is made indirectly or implied using only a word or two.
What is an allusion?
a word that sounds like the noise it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
when two or more words create a rhyme in the same line of a poem or verse.
What is internal rhyming?
a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, always ending with a couplet.
What is a Sonnet?
a type of narrative poem, sometimes put to music, that tells a story in a number of short regular stanzas, often with a refrain.
What is a Ballad?
using words or phrases that could have more than one meaning.
What is an idiom?
the repetition of two or more of the same vowel sounds in a word or the repetition of two or more of the same consonant sounds in a word.
What is assonance?