Poetry Test Flashcards
Acrostic
A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words
Alphabet Poem:
These poems don’t rhyme and are written in a similar way to an acrostic poem.
Ballad:
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Biography Poem:
a poem that is written to describe a person, usually a fictional character or famous person.
Cinquain:
a five-line stanza
Class Poem:
A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery
Concrete Poem:
poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices.
Elegy:
An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who has passed away.
Fable:
A fable is a poetic story composed in verse or prose with a moral summed up at the end.
Free Verse:
Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
Haiku:
a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
Imagery:
Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses.
Limerick:
a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.
List Poem:
A list poem can be a list or inventory of items, people, places, or ideas. • It often involves repetition
Lyric Poem:
a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry
Metrical Tale:
is a narrative poem which is written in verse that relates to real or imaginary events in simple, straightforward language, from a wide range of subjects, characters, life experiences, and emotional situations
Ode:
a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
Senryu:
a 3-line unrhymed Japanese poem structurally similar to haiku but treating human nature usually in an ironic or satiric vein.
Septolet:
is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break in between the two parts.
Sonnet:
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
Syllable:
a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
Line:
is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided, which operates on principles which are distinct from and not necessarily coincident with grammatical structures, such as the sentence or single clauses in sentences.
Stanza:
is a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme.
Rhyme Scheme:
is a poet’s deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza
