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writing in which
language, imagery,
and sound combine
to create a special
emotional effect
has a plot,
characters,
setting, and
tells a story
poetry in which one
or more characters
speak
a short,
musical,
narrative
poem—often
romantic in nature
a poem whose
words form the
shape of the
subject matter
I
am
a very
special
shape I have
three points and
three lines straight.
Look through my words
and you will see, the shape
that I am meant to be. I'm just
not words caught in a tangle. Look
close to see a small triangle. My angles
add to one hundred and eighty degrees, you
learn this at school with your abc's. Practice your
maths and you will see, some other fine examples of me.
• five line poem
• first, second, and fifth lines
rhyme and have three beats
• third and fourth lines rhyme
and have two beats
• Usually silly and humorous
a fourteen line
poem,
usually rhymed
a short poem consisting of five,
usually unrhymed lines
Two syllables - first line
Four syllables - second line
Six syllables - third line
Eight syllables - fourth line
Two syllables - fifth line
• three line poem about nature
• seventeen syllables total
• first line – five syllables
• second line – seven syllables
• third line – five syllables
long, formal lyric
poem
with a serious
Theme—It is often
praise to an object.
couplet – two lines
quatrain – four lines
sestet – six lines
octave – eight lines
when words are used
in poetry with a
repetition of sounds
when two or
more words at
the end of a line
of poetry rhyme
rhyme in which
the final sounds
are similar,
but not
identical
rhyme that occurs
within the same line
Example:
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered weak and weary
a regular pattern of
rhyming words at the end
of a line of poetry.
Letters are used to
identify each new rhyme.
(ex. abab, aabb)
poetry that has no
rhyme scheme or
regular rhythm
and depends on
natural speech rhythms
pattern of
beats
in written
language
a sound,
word,
phrase, or
sentence that
is said several
times
a word, phrase, line, or
group of lines repeated
regularly – usually at
the end of a stanza
the voice of a poem
or the role of the
poet in the poem
A poem in which one
character speaks to
one or more
listeners
A poem which contains
characters
talking to
each other
a comparison that is
developed over several
lines of writing or
throughout
an entire poem
repeating of similar
consonant sounds close
together in a group of
words
Example:
Open here I flung the shutter,
when, with many a flirt and flutter
repeating of similar vowel
sounds without repetition
of similar consonant
sounds
examples:
stony – holy
lake - fate
repeating of
the same
or similar
final
consonant
sounds
words that imitate
sounds
smash
a deliberate use
of exaggeration.
The goal –
laughter,
to make a point,
or persuasion
His feet are
as big as a
barge!
unrhymed poetry written with
an alternating pattern of
stressed and unstressed
syllables. The rhythm created
by this pattern resembles
the natural rhythm of
spoken English.
(Used by William Shakespeare)