Poetry Terms

• Alliteration: Repitition of the same sound at the beginning of two of more words.
• Analogy: A comparison between two things typically on basis on their structure and for the purposes of explanation or clarification.
• Assonance: In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
• Consonance: The recurrence of similar sounds especially constants in close proximity.
• Ballad: A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
• Blank Verse: Verse without rhyme.
• Figurative Language:The use of words. phrases, symbol, and ideas in such as ay to evoke mental images and sense impression. Figurative language is often characterized by the use of figures of speech, elaborate expression, sound devices, and syntactic departures from the usual order of literal language.
• Free Verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
• Haiku: Japanese verse written in 17 syllables and has 3 lines containing usually 5, 7, 5 syllables.
• Imagery: Visually descriptive language to represent objects, action, or ideas.
• Lyric Poem: A short poem of song like quality.
• Narrative Poem: A Poem that tells a story and has a plot.
• Ode: A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject,often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
• Rhyme: Have or end with a sound that corresponds to another. 
• Rhythm: A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. 
• Shakespearean Sonnet: The sonnet form used by Shakespeare ,composed of 3 quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
• Petrarchan Sonnet: A sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme abbaabba and a sestet following nay of various patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd