Structure
A narrative poem, originally composed to be sung.
A Ballad
Is typically used to create flow, and to create onomatopoeia when someone is reading aloud, which is why it is often found in poetry and song lyrics.
Alliteration
The mental impression summoned up by a word, phrase or sentence. It suggests to the reader what to think and feel.
Imagery
simile
Uses like or as while comparing things
The poem does not follow any rules. Its creation is completely in the hands of the author.
Free Verse
A line or group of lines which are repeated in the course of a poem (usually at the end of each stanza).
Refrain
I love you like a love song, baby.
Name 2 poetic devices in this line.
Alliteration and a simile.
I love you like a love song, baby.
What is being compared?
Love and a love song.
Takes existing texts and refashions them, reorders them, and presents them as poems.
Found
Takes existing texts and refashions them, reorders them, and presents them as poems.
Concrete
Two words which end with identical sounds.
Rhyme
When an inanimate object or abstract image is given human qualities or abilities
Personification
True or false?
A couplet doe not have to rhyme.
False
Haiku
A three line japanese poem. In which the first and third line have 5 syllables and the second has 7 syllables.
A play on words. Uses words that have several meanings or words that sound similar but have different meanings. Can often be comical in nature.
Pun
Free verse
has a lack of structure. Does not have to ryhme.
Stanzas with two lines that rhyme.
couplet
What is the pattern of rhyme for a Sonnet poem?
Write it down.
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
A device where seemingly opposite words are placed together for effect.
Oxymoron
Perform a couplet.
Answers may vary.
True or false?
A quatrain must rhyme.
False