POETRY TERMINOLOGY

POEM

• The relationship between words that are focused on in Poetry
• Impacts readers thoughts and feelings
• Written in stanzas

SPEAKER

BALLAD

• Tells a story
• Based on romance
• No rhyme

CONCRETE

• A creative visual of poetry usally artistically expressed
• Dosnt have to ryhme

FREE VERSE

Lyric
Shorter poems of great feeling and emotion

NARRITIVE

• A pom that tells a story
• May or may not rhyme
• Short story

SONNET

• Fourteen line poem
• Rigid rhyme
• English abab cdcd efef gg
• Italian abba abba cdc cdc

ALLITERATION

• Repeated constant sounds
• Ex . The ants ate apples
• Ex. The person picked pumpkins

SIMILE

• A exageration using like or as
• Ex. The car was as big as the horse
• Ex. The light was as bright as the sun

ONOMATOPOEIA

• Words that sound like what they mean
• Ex. Boom !
• Ex. Pow !!

METAPHOR

METAPHOR

• Ex. You are my sunshine
• Ex. She is a walking dictionary (jordan)

PERSONIFICATION

• A non human like thing doing humanly things
• Ex. The girrafe was riding a bicycle
• Ex. The mouse was juggling
• Ex. In the kitchen the dog was dancing

ALLUSION

CLICH'E

• Line or expression
• Ex. It was a dark stormy night
• Red with anger
• Ex. "Bae"
• Ex. "Bro"

CONNOTATION

• Unspoken unwritten series of association is made with a particular word
• Ex . Dog = faithfulness loyalty and devotion
• Ex. Dog = viciousness

DENOTATION

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• Ex. Simile
• Ex. Metaphor
• Ex . Hyperbole
• Ex. Personification
• Exaggerations of words sentaces and phrases

HYPERBOLE

• A exaggeration to make a point
• Ex. You weigh a ton
• Ex. I have 1 million things to do
• Ex. Her brain is the size of a Pea

IMAGE

IMAGERY

• Pictures in the readers mind
• Appeals to the five senses

LITERAL LANGUAGE

MOOD

• Emotion of the poem
• Ex. Happy
• Ex. Sad
• Ex. Confused

OXYMORON

• Single word opposites
• Ex. Cold fire
• Ex. Warm Popsicle

PARADOX

• A large oxymoron
• Ex. The child is the father of the man
• Ex. The cat is the boss of the pit bull

REPETITION

• Deliberately repeated words
• Ex. Coconut, coconut,coconut
• Ex. Duck, duck , duck

SYMBOL

• Something that represents something
• Ex. A dove often represent the concept of peace
• Ex. The american flag represents the United States

TONE

• The narrator's attitude towards the subject of the poem
• Not the same as mood
• Ex. Jimmy was happy so the tone of the poem was happy
• Ex. Jimmy was sad so the tone of the poem was sad

UNDERSTATEMENT

• The opposite of a hyperbole
• Ex. A person might say to a hospitalized hard crash victim I "bet that hurt"
• Ex. When a person says they didnt work out very long when they really worked out for 10 hours

COUPLET

• Two lines of poetry that rhyme
• Ex. Roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet and so are you

OCTAVE

• Eight lines of poetry that have a rhyme scheme
• First part of an Italian sonnet is a octave

QUATRAIN

• Four lines of poetry that have a rhyme scheme
• Quatrain = abab abcb or aabb rhyme scheme

SESTET

• Six lines of poetry that have a rhyme scheme
• The second part of an Italian sonnet is a sestet

STANZA

VERSE

BLANK VERSE

• Unrhymed iambic pentameter
• All sonnets Shakespearean play in the King James version

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

• A line of poetry that has 10 syllables
• Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
• Ex. Giraffe
• Ex. Destroy are both iambs

REFRAIN

RYHME

• The lines at the end of the verse have matching sounds
• Ex. Duck buck tuck
• Ex. Lucky ducky

RHYME SCHEME

RHYTHM