Poetry Vocabulary
1. Alliteration - the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
2. Analogy - a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be made.
3. Assonance - a rhyme which the same vowels are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words.
4. Consonance - correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
5. Ballad - any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody.
6. Blank Verse - unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
7. Figurative Language - speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech, or writing employing figures of speech.
8. Free Verse - verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
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9. Haiku - a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into three 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.
10. Imagery - the formation of mental images, figures, or likeliness of things, or of such images collectively.
11. Lyric Poem - a short poem of songlike quality.
12. Narrative Poem - a poem that tells a story and has a plot.
13. Ode - a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
14. Rhyme - identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of a verse
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15. Rhythm - movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat or accent.
16. Shakespearean Sonnet - a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iampic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
17. Petrarchan Sonnet - a sonnet containing an octave with with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet following any of various patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd. Also called Italian Sonnet.
