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1. Alliteration:– Repetition of initial
consonant sounds– Example: Sister Suzy sat on
the seashore until suddenly she was swallowed by a shark.
2. Allusion:– A reference to a well-known
person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
3. Ballad:– A song-like poem that tells
a story4.Blank Verse:
– Poetry that is unrhymed but has a pattern
5.Concrete Poem:– A poem that creates a
shape that suggests the subject
– Example: George Herbert’s Easter Wings and The Alter
6. Figurative Language:– Writing that is not
meant to be taken literally
– Example: He made me so mad I wanted to die.
7. Free Verse:– Poetry not written in a
regular rhythmical pattern or meter
8. Image:– A word or phrase that appeals
to one or more of the five senses
9. Lyric Poem:– musical verse that expresses
the observations and feelings of a single speaker
10.Metaphor:– Comparison between 2 unlike
things without using like or as– Example: He is such a pig when he
eats!
11. Mood:– The feeling created in the reader
by a literary work
12. Onomatopoeia:– The use of words that imitate
sounds– Example: The buzz of the bee was
very loud.
13.Personification:– a non-human subject is given
human characteristics– Example: The tree waved excitedly
in the wind.
14. Repetition:– The use, more than once, of any
element of language
15. Rhyme:– Repetition of sounds at the end
of words– Example: Roses are red, violets are
blue…..
16. Rhyme Scheme:– A regular pattern of
rhyming words in a poem
17. Rhythm:– Pattern of beats or stresses
in spoken or written language
18. Simile:
– uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
19. Stanza:– A formal division of lines in a
poem considered as a unit
My love is like a red rose.
20. Motif – Main or reoccurring theme.
21. Extended Metaphor – metaphor over several lines of poetry.
22. Pun – Double meaning
23. Confessional poetry – confession of an activity or an emotion
24. Elegy – Pays tribute to a person (usually dead)
25. Imagist poetry – uses lots of images to paint a picture for the reader.
26. Limerick– short, humorous poem in 5 lines
27. Acrostic Poem – a poem where the first letter of each word, spells out another word or message
28. Hyperbole– extreme exaggeration for humor
29. Couplet– a rhymed pair of lines
30. Heroic Couplet – 2 rhyming lines at the end of an epic
31. Irony– when what is expected and what happens
are different(V, S, D)
32. Epic– long, narrative poem about a hero
33. Haiku– poem of 17 syllables, arranged in lines of 5, 7, 5
34. Meter– pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
35. Ode– a lyric poem with serious themes; pays tribute to something
36. Oxymoron– when opposite terms appear together (ex: jumbo shrimp)
37. Parody– a poem created to imitate or impersonate something else; usually for humor
38. Prose– poetry that is not in verse form
39. Refrain– one or more lines that are repeated in the same spot of each stanza of a poem
40. Sonnet– poem written in a specific pattern and that contains 14 lines.
41. Stress– emphasis on a certain word or syllable of a poem
42. Symbol– person or object that represents something
43. Tone – the author’s attitude about a subject
44. Palindrome– a word that reads the same backwards and forwards
Limericks• A limerick is a poem of five lines• The first, second, and fifth lines
have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another.
• The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another.
• They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.
Humor• Humor in poetry can
arise from a number of sources:
– Surprise– Exaggeration– Bringing together
of unrelated things
• Most funny poems have two things in common:
– Rhythm– Rhyme
Rhythm & Rhyme• Using more spirited language makes
humorous situations even more humorous
“The Porcupine”By Ogden Nash
Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan’t be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor
vanishes.
Any hound that touches a porcupineCan’t be blamed for holding a grudge
I know one hound that laughed all winter long
At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood
LimericksThere once was a man with no
hair.He gave everyone quite a scare.
He got some Rogaine,Grew out a mane,
And now he resembles a bear!
Limerick About a BeeI wish that my room had a
floor,I don’t care so much for a
door.But this walking around
Without touching the groundIs getting to be quite a bore.
Another Limerick
There once was a very small mouseWho lived in a very small house,
The ocean’s sprayWashed it away,
All that was left was her blouse!
You will create a limerick similar to this
one…
There once was a man from Beijing.All his life he hoped to be King.
So he put on a crown,Which quickly fell down.
That small silly man from Beijing.
Fill in the blanks and create your own
Limerick.
There once was a _____ from _____.All the while she/he hoped ________.
So she/he ____________________,And ________________________,
That _________ from ___________.
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