Poetry Terms. Speaker the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.
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PoetryTerms
Speaker
the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem
Structured Form
poems whose lines and/or stanzas have a regular repeated pattern
Free Verse
poems whose lines and/or stanzas have no regular pattern or rhyme scheme
Stanza
a group of lines forming a unit, similar to a paragraph
Ex: How many stanzas? (2)
He threw the ballUp a tree. (1)
It could not fallDown to me. (2)
Types of Stanzascouplet – 2 lines per stanzatercet – 3 lines per stanzaquatrain – 4 lines per stanzacinquain – 5 lines per stanzasestet – 6 lines per stanzaseptet – 7 lines per stanzaoctave – 8 lines per stanza
Repetitionthe repeating of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
Refraina repeated passage
Rhyming Wordswords that have identical or very similar final sounds
Ex: place/face
hat/mat
Rhyme Scheme
the pattern in rhyme which represents identical final sounds in lines or verses
Ex: What is the rhyme scheme? (ABAB)
He threw the ball (A)Up a tree. (B)It could not fall (A)Down to me. (B)
Internal Rhymerhyme between a word within the line of poetry and the last word of the same line
Ex: At number four, to waltz no more.
Imagerylanguage that creates a sensory impression within the reader’s mind
Figurative Language
the use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions
Alliterationthe repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
Ex: The delightfully dainty dinosaurs danced through my dreams. (“d” sound)
Assonancethe repetition of vowel sounds
Ex: The goat jumped off the boat and started to float. (“o” sound)
Analogya comparison between things based on parallels or connections between two ideas.
Ex: sox : feet :: gloves : hands
lion : cage :: book : bookcase