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Poetic language
Poetic forms
Sound devices
Poetry terms
More poetic forms
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Writing that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses
What is sensory language
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A five-line poem meant to be funny --Originated in Ireland --Rhyme scheme: AABBA
What is a Limerick?
100
When sounds at the end of the words agree - such as pool and fool
What is rhyme?
100
Poetry is written in these --the way the lines are grouped together (like paragraphs in prose writing).
What are stanzas?
100
A poem that rhymes and expresses emotion (does not tell a story)
What is a lyric poem?
200
A comparison of one thing to another, using the words "like" or "as" (or other comparison words).
What is a simile?
200
Any poetry that tells a story in verse --has similar elements to a a story such as a plot line and characters.
What is narrative poetry?
200
Occurs when a word or phrase is purposely used more than once, can create a pattern.
What is repetition?
200
Poets often use these word pictures or images to help the reader "see" or visualize the poem fully.
What is Imagery (or sensory language)
200
?A poem that describes a person, place, thing, or idea ?--elevated language?--a celebration ?--like a love song?--usually has a rhyme scheme ?--a meditation on the person, idea, or object it is about --often talks directly to that thing or person or place
What is an ode?
300
Comparing one thing to another by saying one thing IS the other, or describing it the way you would describe the other thing.
What is a metaphor?
300
Modern poetry that does not obviously rhyme and has no set meter.
What is free verse?
300
A type of repetition where part of the phrase is repeated, but part of it is changed
What is parallel structure (or a parallelism)?
300
Two consecutive lines in a poem that rhyme with each-other, and have the same number of syllables
What is a couplet?
300
??A poem that mourns and/or celebrates someone who has died. ?--often rhymes, but doesn’t have to? --LIke an ode to the dead person Examples: His Day is Done?, Oh, Captain, My Captain
What is an elegy?
400
Giving human characteristics to things that are not human (a type of metaphor, but one that has its own name)
What is personification?
400
A type of lyric poem made of 3 quatrains (sets of ABAB), that ends with a couplet --fourteen lines in all. Made most famous by William Shakespeare
What is a Sonnet?
400
Words or phrases that imitate sounds they are describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines (which lines rhyme with which--expressed using A, B, C, etc.)
What is rhyme scheme?
400
?A long narrative poem that tells the story of a mythic hero .?--set meter? Yes? --rhyme scheme? Usually not.? --from oral tradition ?Examples : Beowulf, The Iliad ,The Odyssey
What is an epic poem?
500
A metaphor that continues to be used beyond the original comparison--either a little bit or a lot. Example: We could read his face, turn the pages of it, even go back and look in the index. It was not even a difficult book to read--maybe about second grade level.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
A three line Japanese verse form
What is a Haiku?
500
The repetition of sounds in the beginning of words (like Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers).
What is alliteration?
500
Rhythm produced by the poems words, lines, and stanzas
What is meter?
500
?A shorter narrative poem that tells the story of an outlaw or a common person --set meter? Yes ?--rhyme scheme? Yes? --short stanzas and a refrain? (chorus) --like a song
What is a ballad?