POETRY FORMS
a poem that involves more than one speaker or a speaker clearly different from the poet; one of the three traditional divisions of poetry
Dramatic
a division within a poem made up of lines, comparable to the paragraph in prose
stanza
visual
sight
A poetic device where a sentence or phrase runs onto the next line without a pause or end puncuation. It often creates a sense of flow, surprise or urgency
Enjambment
Three Read Approach
experience, movement, message
a poem that primarily tells a story; one of the three traditional divisions of poetry
narrative
8 line stanza
octave
smell
olfactory
prose
Written or spoken language in its “ordinary form,” natural, grammatical. different from poetry
is when the last syllables within a verse rhyme.
end rhyme
a poem that primarily expresses the thoughts or feelings of the speaker, traditionally in present tense, noted for musical quality; one of the three traditional divisions of poetry
lyric
1 line stanza
monostich
tactile
touch
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
juxtaposition
involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
internal rhyme
a fourteen line poem with a pattern of end rhymes. The Italian/Petrarchan form is typically divided into an octave (eight-line stanza) and a sestet (six-line stanza), and the English/Shakespearean form is typically divided into three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a couplet (a two-line stanza). The turning point in the poem is known as the volta.
sonnet
2 line stanza
couplet
gustatory
taste
expresses an insight into life, saying in general this is the way life is
Theme
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
a short, humorous poem with five lines of usually anapestic feet (the first two lines have three feet, the second two lines have two feet, the last line has three feet); the poem has a rhyme scheme of AABBA.
limerick
4 line stanza
quatrain
kinetic
motion
tells the reader how to behave, what kind of person they should be, or what is good or bad
Moral
the repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance