Poetry
Here is a list of poetical terms, which you can use to understand poetry better. After reading them, read the poems, which contain examples of these terms.
Terms:
Poems:
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On the website, try to identify the figurative language uses. Next, see if you were right by clicking "view answers"
Here are a few more examples:
Terms:
- Hyperbole: A non-literal statement.
- Couplet: This is a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme
- Alliteration: This occurs when two adjacent or closely connected words begin with the same letter.
- Imagery: This is the use of words to paint an image in your mind.
- Metaphor: This is the comparison of two things, like a simile, but does not use the words "like" or "as". "Click here for examples"
- Internal Rhyme: In this type of rhyme, the rhyming words are in the center of the line.
- Rhyme Scheme: This is the pattern of rhymes within a poem. Examples are aabb, abba, and abcb.
- End Rhyme:This is the most common type of rhyme. The rhyming words are at the end of the lines of the poem.
- Personification: Giving a non-living thing human qualities.
- Onomatopoeia: This is the use of words to create a sound. (Sizzle,BOOM,CRASH)
- Repetition: This is the repeating of a word or phrase multiple times to give an effect.
- Rhythm: This is the stressed and unstressed words in the poem to give it a beat.
- Simile: This is a comparison of two thing USING the words "like" or "as". "Click here for examples"
- Stanza: Also called a verse, this is a group of lines in a poem. Some poems are split into multiple stanzas to separate thoughts or ideas.
- Pun: A statement with two possible meanings. "Click here for examples"
- Triplet: This is a three line stanza that follows the same rhyme.
- Verse: These are arranged by rhythm, and are made up of stanzas.
- Haiku: This is a Japanese poem made up of seventeen syllables, and divided into three lines. The syllable order is five, seven, five.
- Assonance: This is the alliteration of vowels near each other to create an echo effect.
- Ballad: This is a poem or song that narrates a story in short stanzas.
- Ode: This is a poem devoted to praise someone, often expressing deep feeling.
- Epic: A long narrative poem about a hero or heroic deeds.
- Elegy: This is a poem with reflection and sorrow for the dead.
- Quatrain: This is a four line stanza.
- Allusion: This is an indirect reference to something of great significance.
Poems:
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On the website, try to identify the figurative language uses. Next, see if you were right by clicking "view answers"
Here are a few more examples:
- Examples of Haiku's
- Examples of Elegy
- Examples of Quatrain
- Examples of an Epic
- Examples of Assonance
- Examples of Odes
- Examples of Ballads
- Examples of Allusion
- Examples of Triplets