Poetry vocab 1
Someone who writes poems
Who/what is a poet?
Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse.
What is a lyric or lyrical poetry
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
Two lines of poetry, one following the other, that are the same length and rhyme
What is 'a couplet'?
When words near each other start with the same letter
What is alliteration
A pattern of the number of syllables in each line.
What is 'meter'?
Using the five senses to describe things
What is imagery
Repetition of the first letter of several words near each other
What is alliteration
A pattern of the number of syllables
What is meter
A group of lines in a poem
Who is a stanza
A group of lines in a poem forming part of a poem
What is 'a stanza'?
A line of poetry
What is 'a verse'?
When a line or a phrase is repeated in a poem
Who is a refrain
A Japanese poem with three lines and a five, seven, five, meter that is about nature
What is a haiku
The use of the five senses to describe events or ideas in poems
What is 'imagery'?
Poetry that does not have a fixed structure and does not rhyme
What is 'free verse'?
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem
A poem with five lines with a rhyme scheme of AABBA that is often funny
What is a limerick
The use of several words together that begin with the same consonant sound or letter in order to make a special effect
What is 'alliteration'?
When a word makes a sound, like snap, crackle, pop
What is Onomatopoeia
A type of figurative language that gives human attributes to non-human things.
What is 'personification'?
Conjoining contradictory terms in one expression (as in 'deafening silence')
What is 'an oxymoron'?
The gap between stanzas in a poem
What is a stanza break
A humorous play on words, using similar-sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings. Fx.
"The best way to communicate with a fish is to drop them a line."
What is 'a pun'?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. Fx. "I'm dying of thirst"
What is 'hyperbole'?