Poetry Review 10

Types

100

A long poem, tells a story, typically related to folk tales and/or a hero. 

Ballad

200

A long poem which tells a story. 

Narrative

300

AABB, CCDD or ABAB

Rhyme Scheme

400

Formal, emotional poetry, typically told in first person by the author. 

Lyric

500

Shakespearean and Italian are two types; can be split up by various verse forms (i.e. three quatrains and a couplet, or an octave and a sestet)

Sonnet

Verse Forms

100

Two rhyming lines of poetry

Couplet

200

Eight rhyming lines of poetry; most common is ABBA ABBA form in an Italian sonnet

Octave

300

A stanza of four rhyming lines

Quatrain

400

Six lines forming a stanza or the last six of an Italian sonnet

Sestet

500

A group of lines within a poem; often forms a paragraph

Stanza

Fig. Language

100

The unspoken, deeper meaning beyond the text of a word or phrase

Connotation

200

The voice of a poem

Speaker

300

An exaggeration; ridiculous description of a thing or situation

Hyperbole

400

Meter in which Shakespeare wrote plays, sonnets

Iambic Pentameter

500

Figurative language which evokes mental impressions; five senses 

Imagery

Vocab

100

Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words/phrases

Alliteration

200

Repetition of consonant sounds; could be anywhere but typically clustered together between close words/phrases. 

Consonance 

300

Type of poem; experimental in nature and often takes the shape of the content itself

Concrete

400

Boom, pop, pow

Onomatopoeia 

500

Repetition of vowel sounds

Assonance

Misc

100

The first T in TP-CASTT?

Title

200

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

Symbolism

300

The A in TP-CASTT is Attitude. What other academic vocabulary words (2) might you relate to this section of analysis of a poem?

Tone or mood

400

The S in TP-CASTT

Shift

500

The C in TP-CASTT stands for connotation. What is the opposite of connotation, based on what we learned in class/notes?

Denotation