1. Poetry
Vocabulary

2. Alliteration: Allusion: Ballad: Blank Verse:
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Allusion:
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Ballad:
A song-like poem that tells a story
Blank Verse:
Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-syllable lines

3. Concrete Poem: Figurative Language: Free Verse: Haiku:
A poem with a shape that suggests its subject
Figurative Language:
Writing that is not meant to be taken literally
Free Verse:
Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
Haiku:
A three-lined Japanese verse

4. Image: Lyric Poem: Metaphor:
A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses
Lyric Poem:
Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
Metaphor:
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

5. Mood: Narrative Poem: Onomatopoeia: Personification:
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
Narrative Poem:
A story told in verse
Onomatopoeia:
The use of words that imitate sounds
Personification:
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

6. Refrain: Repetition: Rhyme: Rhyme Scheme:
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem
Repetition:
The use, more than once, of any element of language
Rhyme:
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
Rhyme Scheme:
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

7. Rhythm:
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
Simile:
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
Stanza:
A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
My love is like a red rose.

8. Poetry
Humor & Poetry

9. Humor Humor in poetry can arise from a number of sources:
Surprise
Exaggeration
Bringing together of unrelated things
Most funny poems have two things in common:
Rhythm
Rhyme