Poetic Terms

1. Narrative poetry Tells a story. (any poem which tells a story)

2. Lyric Poem Any poem which expresses an emotion. (Any poem or song which expresses an emotion and does not tell a story)

A poem with no formal rhyme scheme. 3. Free Verse A poem with no formal rhyme scheme.

4 Rhythm The varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry. In verse the rhythm is normally regular; in prose it may or may not be regular.

5. Rhyme Also spelled rime, rhyme is a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words, especially when their accented vowels and all succeeding consonants are identical.

6. End Rhyme Roses are RED, Violets are DEAD When rhyme is on the end of the lines of poetry.

7 Internal Rhyme Using rhyming words on the same line of poetry I love dead, red roses.

RAVE ROVE ROT ROCK 8 Slant Rhyme The use of rhyming sounds that are similar but not identical; note that the words do not completely rhyme! RAVE ROVE ROT ROCK

“The snake slithered slowly” 9. Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sound “The snake slithered slowly”

May we praise the way? Repetition of vowel sounds 10. Assonance May we praise the way? Repetition of vowel sounds

“Lake like” 11. Consonance “Wind wound” The use of the same consonant sounds at end of words. Also called slant rhyme or half rhyme (It only rhyme for half the word) “Wind wound” “Lake like”

12. Onomatopoeia Words that imitate sounds SNAP CRASH MEOW POP

Words or phrases that appeal to senses. 13. Image Words or phrases that appeal to senses.

14 Figure of Speech A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect. Perhaps the two most common figurative devices are the simile-and the metaphor--a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are implicitly compared without the use of "like" or "as."

15. Hyperbole It is 500 degrees in here I’ve told you a million times An extreme exaggeration. It is 500 degrees in here I’ve told you a million times If I hear that one more time, I will go deaf

16 Metaphor The sky was a blue pool. The gym was an oven One thing is compared to another without like or as. The sky was a blue pool. The gym was an oven

17 Personification An animal, idea or object is given human charactersistics. “Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me.” “The fog crawled” “The wind spoke”

“The sky is like a big, blue pool” 18 Simile “The sky is like a big, blue pool”

19 Synaesthesia Mixing the senses: Taking one type of sensory input (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) and comingling it with another separate sense in an impossible way. In the resulting figure of speech, we end up talking about how a color sounds, or how a smell looks. When we say a musician hits a "blue note" while playing a sad song, we engage in synaesthesia. Other examples: "cool green," we mix tactile or thermal imagery with visual imagery the same way. When we talk about a "heavy silence," we also use synaesthesia ; “All I can taste is this moment” “The singing light”

20 Understatement “War is bad for children” the opposite of exaggeration: "I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran toward me with a chainsaw." (i.e., I was terrified)

21 Apostrophe “Oh Superman, where are you now?” Not to be confused with the punctuation mark, apostrophe is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present: For instance, John Donne commands, "Oh, Death, be not proud."

22. Repetition When a writer repeats words, phrases or ideas

“What are you, a dork?” “What did I tell you? 23. Rhetorical question A question without an expected answer. “What did I tell you? “What are you, a dork?”

Sad Happy Depressed Vengeful Sarcastic Mocking Bitter 24. Tone Sad Happy Depressed Vengeful Sarcastic Mocking Bitter

25. Theme Poems have messages. Themes must be universal and reveal a general truth about life.

26 Synecdoche. The name of a part is used instead of the name of the whole or vice versa. “All hands on deck”

27. Metonymy The naming of an object assoicated with a thing in place of the actual thing itself. “The pen is mightier than the sword.”

28. Paradox “The have eyes but see not” “You bleed just to kow your alive” “The have eyes but see not” A seemingly contradictory statement; upon further review, the statement reveals a truth has a deeper meaning.

29. Denotation vs 30. Connotation Denotation is a word’s dictionary definition Connotation are the thoughts, feelings and emotions associated with a word