Poetry

Poetry

Imaginative, expressive writing characterized by rhythm, unified and concentrated thought, concrete images, specialized language and the use of patterns.

Simile

Points out similarities does not replace the object uses like or as idle as a painted ship

Consonance

Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.

Assonance

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

Ballad

a short musical narrative song or poem that usually recounts a single exciting or dramatic episode, something important

Line

a unit of poetry/can be separated by punctuation, meter and/or rhyme. A line may be a unit of attention is is not usualy a unit of meaning

Sonnet

a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

Omniscient

able to see into the mind of characters and know what they are thinking and feeling

Lamb

occurs when an unaccented syllable is followed by an accented on con-TAIN

Blank verse

unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter

slant rhyme

words that end in and similar but not exact sounds. Example: prove and love

Villanelle

A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern

Metaphor

A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. Juliet is the sun

Symbolism

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

Stanza

A group of lines followed by a space. Lines are sometimes arranged in a pattern created by meter and/or a rhyme scheme

Haiku

A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

Couplet

A stanza with 2 lines, tercet, quatrain