Types of Poems
a form that originated in Japan, is traditionally composed of three lines with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count, and often focuses on images from nature
What is a haiku?
a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem
What is an allusion?
exaggeration for emphasis
What is a hyperbole?
the term describing when a greater amount of force is used to pronounce one syllable over an adjacent, unstressed syllable
What is stress?
a fundamental unit in verse, carrying meaning both horizontally across the page and vertically from one line to the next
What is a line?
a form in which names or words are spelled out through the first letter of each line
What is an acrostic?
the repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words
What is alliteration?
a literary device that conveys the author’s attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem
What is tone?
the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse
What is meter?
a grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
open form poetry not dictated by an established form or meter and often influenced by the rhythms of speech
What is free verse?
the repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
the use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes
What is onomatopoeia?
a rising meter form consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed or accented syllables as five iambic feet per line
What is iambic pentameter?
a metrical line containing a complete phrase or sentence, or a line of poetry ending with punctuation; the opposite of enjambment
What is an end-stopped line?
an often comical or nonsensical form composed of five lines and popular in children’s literature
What is a limerick?
a technique in which successive phrases or lines begin with the same words
What is anaphora?
a rhetorical device where identical words and phrases repeat in a reversed order
What is chiasmus?
a metrical foot containing two syllables, the first of which is unstressed and the latter of which is stressed
What is an iamb?
the continuation of a sentence or clause across one poetic line break
What is enjambment?
a poem celebrating an event, a person, or a thing that is not present
What is an ode?
a direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, a god, or a person not living or present
What is apostrophe?
the arrangement of language and order of words used to convey the poem’s content
What is syntax?
poetry that does not need to rhyme but follows a regular meter, most commonly iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
the correspondence of sounds in words or lines of verse
What is rhyme?