Poetry Terms

Alliteration

Analogy

Assonance

Consonance

Balled


Blank Verse

Figurative Language

Free Verse

Haiku 

imagery

Lyric Poem

Narrative Poem

Ode

Rhyme

Rhythm

Shakespearean 
Sonnet-

Petrarchan Sonnet

the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a group of words

a similarity between two like things

Resemblance of sounds

correspondence of sounds; Harmony of sounds

 a simple narrative poem of folk orgin; composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing

Unrhymed verse

uses "figures of speech" a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of words

Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern 

verse written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7 syllables

the formation of mental imeges, figures or likenesses of things 

a short poem of song like qualitys 

poem that tells a story

a poem intended to be surg 

identity in sounds of some part, esspecially the end of words or lines of verse

movement or proceclure with uniform or patherned recurrence of a beat 

a sonnet form used by shakespear and having the rhyme 


a sonnet consisting of an ocatave with the rhythme scheme