Types of Poetry
Sound in Poetry
Terms in Poetry
Figurative Language
Surprise Surprise
100
A brief and intense 5-line, unrhymed form from Japan. Lines 1 and 3 contain five syllables. Lines 2, 4, and 5 contain seven syllables.
What is a Tanka?
100
This form does not follow a regular metrical pattern, but includes poetic devices.
What is Free Verse?
100
It is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
What is meter?
100
Comparisons of apparently unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
This form of poetry is about heroes and gods.
What is epic poetry?
200
A challenging 14-line form. The meter is iambic pentameter; each line has five unaccented and five accented syllables.
What is a Sonnet
200
This poetic device reinforces rhythm and highlights relationships among ideas. This poetic device often follows a "Scheme."
What is Rhyme?
200
It refers to the atmosphere that is prevalent in the poem. Different elements of a poem such as its setting, tone, voice and theme help establish this atmosphere. As a result, it evokes certain feelings and emotions in the reader.
What is mood?
200
Speaking of one thing as as if it were another kind of thing.
What is a metaphor?
200
This form of poetry expresses praise.
What is an Ode?
300
In this form of poetry the speaker tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
300
This poetic device uses the repetition of initial consonant sound in stressed syllables.
What is alliteration
300
The use of words that sound like the things they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
This form of poetry mourns losses and offers consolation.
What is an Elegy?
400
In this form of poetry, the speaker expresses thoughts and feelings using images.
What is a lyric poem?
400
The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables.
What is Consonance?
400
It is the voice or "persona" of a poem. One should not assume that the poet is "it."
What is the speaker of a poem?
400
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects.
What is personification?
400
A short poem that describes a single event and can be set to music.
What is a Ballad?
500
A complex 19-line form. Lines are grouped into five - line stanzas and one 4-line stanza. The rhyme pattern is aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa. What makes this form of poetry even more strict are the rules regarding line repetition: the first line of the poem is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18. The third line of the poem is repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19.
What is a Villanelle?
500
A Pair of rhyming lines that express one idea, that are of the same length, and follow the same meter.
What is a couplet?
500
It is the attitude of the poet towards the subject and expressed through the poet's syntax and word-choice.
What is the tone of a poem.
500
Repeated vowel sounds in stressed syllables.
What is Assonance?
500
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
What is an Enjambment?
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