1. Poetry
Literary form that combines the precise meanings of words with their emotional associations, sounds, & rhythms

2. Types of Poetry
Narrative poetry
Lyric poetry
Dramatic poetry

3. Narrative Poem
The writer tells a story in verse

4. Epic
Long narrative poem about gods or heroes

5. Ballad
Songlike narrative about an adventure or romance

6. Lyric poem
Expresses author’s thoughts and feelings

7. Dramatic Poem
Writer tells a story using a character’s own thoughts or statements

8. Haiku
Japanese poetic form containing 3 unrhymed lines of syllables; uses imagery to convey a single vivid emotion

9. Sonnet
14-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm & line structure

10. Figurative Language
Not meant to be interpreted literally; expresses ideas or feelings in a fresh way

11. Metaphor
Compares 2 apparently unlike things without using like, as, resembles, or than

12. Simile
Compares 2 apparently unlike things by using like, as, resembles, or than

13. Personification
Language that attributes human qualities to non-human things

14. Onomatopoeia
The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning

15. Imagery
Descriptive sensory language (related to 1 or more of 5 senses)

16. Sound Devices
Assists in achieving a musical quality

17. Rhythm
Pattern created by stressed & unstressed syllables of words in sequence

18. Meter
Controlled pattern of rhythm

19. Rhyme
Repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables

20. Rhyme Scheme
Pattern of end rhymes

21. Free Verse
No set meter or rhyme scheme

22. Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds of words

23. Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words ex. child of silence

24. Consonance
Repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the separating vowels differ ex. live and love

25. Repetition
The use of any language element more than once

26. Stanza
Group of consecutive lines in a poem

27. Couplet
2-line stanzas

28. Quatrain
4-line stanza