Poetry Types
A type of literature in which language, images, sound, and rhythm are combined
poetry
The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Stressed and unstressed syllables and the number of syllables that are measured to create the rhythm
meter
Lines or phrases that are repeated, usually at the end of the stanza
refrain
A Japanese for of unrhymed poetry that has 3 lines and 17 syllables.
Haiku
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using like or as.
Simile
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem
Stanza
A type of literature in which language, images, sound, and rhythm are combined.
Poetry
Poetry that has no fixed pattern or meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement.
Free Verse
The figure of speech using extreme exaggeration.
hyperbole
The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards the subject or character: serious, humorous, etc.
Tone
The pattern created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables is noticed when read aloud
Rhythm
A poem in which the meaning is conveyed by the placement & design of the words on the page.
Concrete Poem
The use of a word or phrase that actually imitates the sound of what it describes.
onomatopoeia
Two consecutive lines in poetry
couplet
The pattern formed by the end rhyme of the poem. Is shown by a different letter of the alphabet to name each rhyme.
Rhyme Scheme
A single line of poetry
personification
Ordinary language that follows grammatical structure
Prose
A story/narrative in poetic form.
Ballad