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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Definitions and Examples. RYHTHM. The pattern created by the arrangement of stressed syllables. Rhythm gives poetry a musical quality. RHYME. The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the ends of words or close to one another. End Rhyme.

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Poetry Terms

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  1. Poetry Terms Definitions and Examples

  2. RYHTHM • The pattern created by the arrangement of stressed syllables. Rhythm gives poetry a musical quality.

  3. RHYME • The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the ends of words or close to one another.

  4. End Rhyme • Rhyme that occurs at the end of each line. • Example: He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.

  5. RHYME SCHEME • The pattern formed by the END RHYME in a poem. The rhyme scheme is shown by the use of a different letter of the alphabet to name each new rhyme. • See next slide…

  6. Rhyme Scheme Example There was an Old Man with a beard, A Who said, “It is just as I feared! – A Two owls and a hen, B Four Larks and a wren, B Have all built their nests in my beard.” A -Edward Lear

  7. In a foul and filthy cavern A Where the sun has never shown, B The one-eyed ogre calmly gnaws C A cold and moldy bone. B He sits in silence in the slime A that fills his fetid home B and notes the nearing footsteps C in the monstrous catacomb B

  8. INTERNAL RHYME • Rhyme that occurs within lines of poetry. • Examples: Chain link clinks in the wind. The queen of doom upon her broom.

  9. STANZA • A paragraph in Poetry. Several lines grouped together in a poem. • See next slide…

  10. 2 Stanzas Oh, Mom, don’t make me go today.I’m feeling worse than yesterday.You don’t know what I’m going through.I’ve got a strange, rare case of flu. My body aches, my throat is sore.I’m sure I’m knocking on death’s door.You can’t send me to school—achoo!‘Cause everyone could get it, too.

  11. HYPERBOLE • A figure of speech frequently used in poetry; an exaggeration. • Example: He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

  12. PERSONIFICATION • A Figure of Speech in which human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas Example: The wind stood up, and gave a shout; He whistled on his fingers, and Kicked the withered leaves about And thumped the branches with his hand…

  13. SIMILE • A figure of speech using “Like” or “As” to compare seemingly unlike things. • Example: In garmentsblack as pitch

  14. METAPHOR • A figure of speech that compares unlike things without using the words “like” or “as” • Examples: They put me in the cage, I am the animal.

  15. IMAGERY • Language that helps the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things that are described in the work. • Examples: 1. Listen to the grating roar Of pebbles in the waves 2. Masses of flowers load the cherry branches in colors of yellow and red

  16. ONOMATOPOEIA • The use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes. • Example: A tap tap tap on the window pane Then one slow sharp scratch

  17. REPETITION • The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a piece of writing. When a line or stanza is repeated in a poem, it is called a REFRAIN. • EX: Step, step, step; Dig, dig, dig, Twirl, twirl, twirl the bat.

  18. ALLITERATION • The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginnings of words and syllables. Examples: 1. A crackling crone with brittle bones. 2. The sweetsmell of success.

  19. ASSONANCE • The repetition of vowel sounds. • Examples: 1. Like weeds in the deep green sea 2. The child of silence and time

  20. FREE VERSE • Poetry that has no fixed pattern of rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement. • Example: Bright lights Dry mouth, stiff fingers Insides shaking

  21. CINQUAIN • A poem that doesn’t rhyme, is based on word count, and has 5 lines. • Don’t copy this: LINE 1: Noun LINE 2: 2 Adjectives describing the noun LINE 3: 3 Verbs showing action of the noun LINE 4: 4 Words that describe a feeling about the noun LINE 5: Repeat the Noun (use a synonym)

  22. CINQUAIN • Example Hamsters (noun) Furry, friendly (2 adjectives) Twitching, running, digging (3 verbs) Loving, cozy, fluffy cotton (4 feeling) Friend (synonym to noun)

  23. Couplet couplet – A two-line poem that rhymes. Each line contains the same number of syllables. I found a starfish in the bay When I was fishing yesterday.

  24. HAIKU • A Japanese form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables. The first and third lines have 5 syllables each; the middle line has 7 syllables. EX – see next slide

  25. HAIKU one lone wailing voicein the lovely cold forestblack timberwolf song

  26. LIMERICK • A short, usually humorous poem with a regular rhythm pattern and set rhyme scheme of a / a / b / b / a. • EX – see next slide

  27. LIMERICK There was an old lady named Betty Who feasted on only spaghetti. When to her surprise She met her demise By eating instead some confetti.

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