Poetry Vocab Flashcards
An expression that is not meant to be taken literally. Writers use this to express ideas in vivid and imaginative way. We see this a lot in poetry.
Figurative language
Verse that expresses a poet’s thoughts and feelings about a single image or idea. It is written in vivid, musical language.
Lyric poetry
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. You assign a letter to the ends of each line to indicate it.
Rhyme scheme
Poetry that tells a story. Like a story, it has a plot, characters, and a setting. Uses rhyme and/or repetition.
Narrative poetry
Word that imitates the sound it suggest
Onomatopoeia
Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses
Imagery
A comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as
Metaphor
Giving human characteristics to a non-human subject
Personification
Exaggeration meant to produce a particular effect
Hyperbole
A comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as
Simile
Common phrases or terms whose meaning are not literal
Idiom
Repetition of words beginning with the same letter or sound are strung together (she sells sea shells)
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the middle or ends of non-rhyming words or syllables
Consonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring non-rhyming words. Words with similar vowel sounds.
Assonance
A diamond shape poem that uses a certain form
Diamante poem
A poem that is primarily visual or can depend on basically sounds, structure, spacing, or any movement to convey (ex-forms a certain shape)
Concrete poem
7 lines- depend on a persons phone number and each line has the amount of syllables as the number assigned to its line.
Septone poem
Use your five senses to create a poem.
5 senses poem
A 3 lines poem that has five syllables for the first line, 7 for the next and five for the third.
Haiku
A light or humorous verse form of 5 chiefly anapestic verses in which lines 1,2&5 rhyme and 3&4 rhyme. AABBA
Limerick
The words in the poem are joined in an orderly fashion to form one statement, usually declarative
Crossword poem
A poem written about yourself and your feelings ect. But making yourself distinctive
“I Am” Poem
Unrhymed poem of 5 lines in which involves a gradual build up if syllables to 8 and then returns to 2 (2,4,6,8,2)
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