Lyric Poetry Unit Vocabulary

25. Lyric Poetry Poetry that shows the feelings and thoughts of the speaker. Poetry that is musical and resembles a song. All songs are Lyric Poetry.

Types of Lyric Poetry Ballad Limerick Haiku Sonnet Free Verse

Ballad Like a song Tells a story Has a refrain

Limerick Humorous Has 5 lines Rhyme scheme AABBA

Haiku Has 3 lines 17 syllables (5-7-5) No Rhyme

Sonnet Has 14 lines Expresses thoughts, feelings, and emotions

Free Verse No Rules May or may not rhyme Is like “talking”

26. Dramatic Poetry Dramatic = Contains Drama A poem in which a character gives a Soliloquy (a long speech) that has a lot of feeling or emotion, like someone talking in a play.

27. Figurative Language (Figures of Speech) Things that are written or said, but are not meant to be taken seriously or literally. Using Figures of Speech, or ways of talking, to make our writing sound better. Figures of speech include: Simile Metaphor Allusion Personification Hyperbole

28. Simile Comparing two things using “like” or “as”. Example: “Run like the wind” or “Big as a house”.

29. Metaphor Compares two things by saying that one is the other. Saying that an object is something else. Example: “He is a mad dog” or “He is a house”.

30. Extended Metaphor Metaphor that is talked about in more than one way, or that compares two objects in more than one way. When several lines or a paragraph compare two things in several ways.

31. Allusion When writing alludes to (says something about or refers to) something from another writing, from history, or from real life. Example: “My brother has the strength of Hercules”, or “He is an Honest Abe”.

32. Personification Talking about something as if it were human. Giving human characteristics to something non-human Example: “The wind yelled through the trees.” Example: “The wise old owl”, or “The sun smiled at us”.

33. Hyperbole Great Exaggeration used to help show meaning. Example: “Mad enough to bite through steel” Example: “Ugly enough to scare lions” or “Tough as nails”

34. Imagery Using words and language that appeal to the senses. Using words that describe how something looks, sounds, tastes, feels, or smells.

35. Rhythm The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in writing. Meter: Pattern of stresses, or beats, in poetry. Rhythm gives writing a “musical” quality.

36. Alliteration Repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Example: Big bricklayers built the house. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

37. Assonance Repeating similar vowel sounds in words that are close together. Example: I say let’s play. Example: Big bikes. Example: Home alone.

38. Onomatopoeia Using words that imitate sounds. Example: Buzz, Crash, Meow, Hiss, Hum, Bubble, Pop, Swish