Poetry Terms 1
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is like a battlefield.
Simile
A single line of poetry. Like a sentence
Verse/line
What type of rhyme is this?
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
Slant Rhyme!
The wind danced through the trees!
Personification
When the beginning consonant sound repeats!
Alliteration
A word that sounds like what it means. EXAMPLE: Buzz! Click! Bang! Whoosh!
Onomatopoeia
What type of rhyme is this?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
End Rhyme & Perfect Rhyme!
the atmosphere created by the poet to evoke certain feelings in their audience
Used a new style of capitalization and enjambed structure in his poems! His poems look weird on a paper!
A unified group of lines in poetry that commonly look like a paragraph
Stanza
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is a battlefield.
Metaphor
What type of rhyme is this?
drama screamin on her too much for me to wanna
Internal & End Rhyme!
line, phrase, or single word that is repeated periodically within the poem to build up drama, emphasis
Refrain
Poet who wrote about women empowerment! Wrote "phenomenal woman"
Maya Angelou
Giving human characteristics to animals or non-living things.
Personification
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the readers.
Theme
What poetic device? The coffee was bitter, brown, and smelled like chocolate.
Imagery!
The repetition of similar sounds and the pattern produced in a poem.
EXAMPLE: ABAB
Rhyme Scheme
Poet who wrote about racial tensions for African Americans, inequality, etc.,
Langston Hughes!
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Free Verse
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Enjambment
The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character----serious, humorous, sarcastic, etc.
Tone
What is the haiku syllable pattern?
5,7,5 syllable pattern!
A poet who wrote about his ship, he loved that ship so much!
Walt Whitman