Poetry Vocabulary lyric A poem that represents the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker narrative A poem that tells a story or recounts events.

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Poetry Vocabulary

lyric A poem that represents the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker narrative A poem that tells a story or recounts events

Types of lyric poems: Ode: a lyric poem that usually addresses a broad, serious theme, such as justice, truth, or beauty Elegy:A formal poem lamenting over the death of a person “Beauty is truth, truth, beauty,” – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know John Keats

Sonnet A formal structure with 14 lines and a specific rhyme pattern Free Verse No regular pattern of rhyme, rhythm or meter Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, Langston Hughes

Types of Narrative Poems: A story poem that is meant to be sung or recited—has a regular rhythm or rhyme Ballad Epic a long narrative poem that features the adventures of a heroic figure The Odyssey, Beowulf I hear Brenda’s got a baby Well, Brenda’s barely got a brain A (darn) shame Tha girl can hardly spell her name Tupac Shakur

Poetic Devices Rhyme The repetition of sounds at the ends of words I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where Longfellow Internal Rhyme Rhyming words used within a line The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. Edward Lear

Meter The pattern of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables RhythmA regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables often repeated from line to line RepetitionSounds, words, phrases or lines that are used more than once in a poem

“My Heart Soars” The beauty of the trees The softness of the air The fragrance of the grass speaks to me The summit of the mountain The thunder of the sky The rhythm of the sea speaks to me The faintness of the stars The freshness of the morning The dewdrop on the flower speaks to me The strength of fire The taste of salmon The trail of the sun And the life that never goes away they speak to me and my heart soars By Chief Dan George

Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words At midnight in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. -Edgar Allan Poe Imagery Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses

Figurative Language Conveys meaning beyond the literal meaning Simile A comparison of two things with a common quality using the words like or as I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth Metaphor A comparison of two things with a common quality that does not use like or as And when evening steps into lonely rooms Cold is blue; Mary O’Neill

Personification A metaphor that gives human qualities to non-living things There is only the whisper of leaves among the cottonwoods And over the joyless valley Lance Henson Symbol A person, place, object or action that represents something beyond its literal self A red rose might symbolize love

Onomatopoeia A word in a poem that sounds like the noise it represents Example: “Bzzzzzzzzzz,” said the bee.