Idiom
The meaning of the word is not the meaning of the expression.
Personification
An animal give human like qualities or an object give life like qualities.
Simile
A compassion of two things using “ like, as, then” or resemble.
Metaphor
a direct compassion of two unlike things.
All the world's a stage, and we are merely players.
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor that goes reversal lines or possible the entire length of the work.
Implied Metaphor
The compassion is hinted at but not clearly stated.
Hyperbole
Exaggeration often used foe emphasis.
Litotes
Understatement- basically the opposite of hyperbole often it is ironic.
Lyrics
A short poem ( usually written in first person point of view )
Expense an emotion or and idea or describes as sense.
Do not tell a story and often a musical.
Alliteration
Consonant sounds that repeat at the beginning of the word.
Symbolism
When a person, place, things or event that has meaning in itself also represents or stands for something else.
Allusion
Allusion comes from the verb “ allude” which means “to refer to”.
An allusion is a reference to something famous ( Literacy, Biblical, and Historical.)
Imagery
Language that appeals to sense.
Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the sense of sound, touch, or smell.
Parody
A parody imitates the serious manner and characteristic feature of a particular literacy word in order to make fun of those same feature.
POETRY FORM
Form
The appearance of the word on the page.
Line
A group of words together on one line of the poem.
Stanza
A paragraph in poetry.
Couplet
A two line stanza.
Quatrain
A four line stanza.
Rhythm
The beat created by the sound of the word in a poem.
Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.
Meter
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Free Verb Poetry
Unlike meter poetry, free verb poetry doesn’t have any repeating pattern of the stressed and unstressed syllables.
Blank Verb Poetry
Written in lines of amebic pentameter, but doesn’t use and rhyme__ Shakespeare.
Rhyme
Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
End Rhyme
A word at the end of the line rhymes.
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
Slant Rhyme
The words share either the same vowel or consonant BUT NOT BOTH.
Rhyme Scheme
A rhyme scheme is a pattern of the rhyme ( usually end rhyme but not always).
Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate the sound that they naming.
Consonance
Similar to alliteration except.
The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the world.
Assonance
Repeated vowel in a line or line of poetry.
Refrain
A sound word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.
Haiku
A Japanese poem written in three lines five syllables, seven syllables.
Cinquain
A five line poem containing 22 syllables. 2-4-6-8-2 syllables.
Shakespearean Sonnet
A fourteen line with a specific rhyme scheme.
The poem is written in three quatrain and end with a couplet.
The rhyme scheme is a bad cdcd dfdf gg.
Narrative Poem
A poem that tells a story. ( Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poem needs to establish characters and plot.
Concrete Poem
In concrete poems, the words are arranged to create a pic that relates to the content of the poem.
