assonance
blank verse
consonance
couplet
elegy
free verse
haiku
heroic couplet
hexameter
iamb
imagery
internal rhyme
inversion
pentameter
pentameter
poetic license
quatrain
scansion
sonnet
tetrameter
trochee
Definitions
assonance noun
when the vowel sounds (inside the words) are repeated
blank verse
Poetic lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter (ten syllables, with
every other syllable stressed).
consonance noun repeating consonant sounds within a line
EXAMPLE: the sailor sing of ropes and things in ships upon the seas
couplet noun
A Poem of two lines in which they rhyme
elegy (EHluhjee) noun
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead.
free verse
Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza
arrangement.
haiku (hiikoo) noun
1. A Japanese poem made up of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five
syllables; often about nature
2. a Japanese poem with three lines containing 17 syllables usually about nature
heroic couplet
An English verse form consisting of two rhyming lines of iambic
pentameter. e.g., I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that
the East doth hold.---"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
hexameter noun
line of poetry containing six feet
iamb noun A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed syllable or a short syllable followed by a long syllable, as in delay.
imagery (ihmuhjree) noun
descriptive language used in literature that appeals to
the senses (sound, sight, taste, touch, smell)
internal rhyme
This is an example: I cannot look at a book.
inversion (ihnvurzhuhn) The reversal or altering of the normal order of words.
Example: Running fast, the boy won the race.
pentameter noun
Five feet= ten syllables or fifteen syllables
pentameter noun
Five feet= ten syllables or fifteen syllables
poetic license
Mudilicious
taking freedon with the language. Making up words.. EX..
quatrain
1. a four lined poem that may follow any of the following patterns: AABB ABAB
ABCB ABBA
2. a 4 line poem that usually rhymes
scansion
The analysis of the rhythm of a line of verse to determine its meter; also
called scanning the poem. To scan a line of poetry means to note stressed and
unstressed syllables and to divide the line into its feet, or rhythmical units.
sonnet (soniht) noun,verb
scheme
tetrameter
14 line poem in iambic pentameter with definite rhyme
four feet of the same pattern in a line of poetry
trochee noun
1. consists of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one
2. The sound of Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.