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Figurative Language |
any language that is based upon an unusual comparison |
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Similie |
Comparing to unlike things using, like, as, resembles, or than |
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Metaphor |
Comparing two unlike things not using like as etc |
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Imagery |
Words and descriptions any writer uses that describe something we can see, feel, smell, or taste |
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Cinquain |
5 line poem consisting of 22 syllables invented by Adelaide Crapsy |
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Villanelle |
19 line poem first 5 stanzas have 3 lines and the last stanza has 4. |
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Haiku |
3 line japanese poem consisting of 5,7,5 syllables |
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Sonnet |
14 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme |
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Refrain |
When a word, phrase, line or stanza is repeated in a poem in a pattern |
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Elegy |
A poem written to express sorrow after someone has died |
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Rhythm |
The alternation of stressed and unstressed sounds |
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Meter |
a strict rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Free Verse |
poetry that follows no rhythmic pattern |
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Foot |
a unit consisting of at least one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables |
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Iamb |
unstressed/stressed |
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Trochee |
stressed/unstressed |
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Anapest |
unstressed/unstressed/stressed |
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Dactyl |
stressed/unstressed/unstressed |
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Spondee |
stressed/stressed |
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Rhyme |
different words that sound alike |
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End Rhyme |
words that rhyme and appear at the end of lines of poetry |
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Internal Rhyme |
words that rhyme that appear in a line of poetry |
