1. English 9 Academic 2012 Ms. Brooks
The Language of Poetry
English 9 Academic
2012
Ms. Brooks

2. Lyric Poem Express the speakers emotions or thoughts
Does NOT tell a story
Most will be short

3. Free Verse Poetry that does not have a regular meter or line scheme.
Poets use free verse in order to capture the natural rhythms of ordinary speech

4. Haiku A 3 line poem with 17 syllables
Lines 1 & 3 have 5 syllables each
Line 2 has 7 syllables
A haiku usually contrasts 2 images from nature or daily life.

5. Sonnet A 14 line lyric poem
They are written in iambic pentameter and have a regular rhyme scheme.

6. Catalog Poem
A poem which presents a list of many different images

7. Ballad A song that tells a story
They usually include a steady rhythm, strong rhymes, and repetition.

8. Image A word or phrase that appeals to one of our five senses
It is one of a poets strongest tools.

9. Sensory details
Elements or words that help you imagine how something looks, sounds, tastes, or feels.
Sensory details combine to form images.

10. Figures of Speech
Comparisons that are not literarily true.

11. Figurative Language
Expressions that put aside literal meanings in favor of imaginative connections.
It is used by poets to convey an idea that might otherwise take many words to express.

12. Similes
Two unlike things are compared using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.

13. Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.
Does not use the words like or as.

14. Personification
Human qualities are given to something that is not human, such as an animal, object, force of nature, or even idea.

15. Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.

16. Rhyme
The repetitions of a stressed vowel sound and any sounds that follow.

17. End Rhyme
Rhymes in poetry which occur at the ends of lines.

18. Rhyme Scheme A regular pattern of end rhymes.
Rhyme scheme is described using letter, for example:
Abab
Aabb

19. Internal Rhyme
A rhyme in which at least one of the rhymed words falls within a line.

20. Approximate Rhyme
Rhyming words which repeat some sounds but are not exact echoes.
Also referred to as:
Half rhymes
Near rhymes
Slant rhymes

21. Rhythm A musical quality based on repetition
This is the “beat” you hear when reading a poem.

22. Meter
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that in the lines of a poem.
Stressed syllables are marked 
Unstressed syllables are marked 

23. Foot
One stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.

24. Iamb
A foot that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

25. Trochee
A foot that contains a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

26. Anapest
A foot with two unstressed syllables, then a stressed syllable

27. Dactyl
A foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

28. Spondee
A foot with two stressed syllables

29. Blank Verse
A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

30. Free Verse Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
The verse is "free" in not being bound by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a form such as the sonnet or ballad.

31. Onomatopoeia
Using words that sound like what they mean

32. Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant sound in several words

33. Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in several words

34. Author’s Purpose
The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic
The way in which an author uses words to achieve that purpose

35. Theme
The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.

36. Tone
The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.

37. Style
The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques.