Poetry

Similar but not identical vowel sounds
Bear it/Merit

Words that coincide in spelling but not in sound
Home/Come

What are the types of rhyme schemes?

A pattern of lines which usually presents a unit of poetic experience.

Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme

Four-line iambic, alternately tetrameter and trimester, abcb

Three lines

three lines rhyming aba, bcb, cdc

Four lines

Fourteen lines, iambic pentameter

Petratchan -
Octave or octet: abbaabba
Sestet: cdcdcd

Shakesperian: ababcdcdefefgg

unrhymed iambic pentameter

no set rhythm or rhyme scheme

stated comparison, using like or as

an implied comparison, does not use like or as

giving human characteristics to an object, animal, or concept

using the part for the whole
(all hands on deck)

describing one thing by using the term for another thing closely associated with it
(the suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings)

overstatement
(I'm going to be studying all week)

understatement, frequently double negatives
(not bad)

an address: To a Wasp

a situation, or use of language, involving some kind of discrepancy
(a sailor says "water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink)

a statement whose surface meaning seems illogical, but which makes sense on closer examination:
It takes money to make money

a reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event
(9/11)

A condensed paradox, placing two contradictory words together:
thunderous silence

repetition of consonant sounds:
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

Repetition of vowel sounds:
Try to light the fire

a pause, usually marked by punctuation

the use of words which mimic their meaning in their sound:
buzz, murmur, snap

the continuation of a sentence in a poem so that it spills over from one line to the next

the representation through language of the sense experience

blending of images appealing to more than one sense

when poetry is written in the shape of what it is about

Name the types of imagery.

I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend

magnified apples appear and disappear...every fleck of russet showing clear

the rumbling .. of load on load of apples coming in.

Essence of winter sleep in on the night, the scent of apples

mouth-puckering sour candy

the feel of velvet

My instep arch not only keeps the ache, It keeps the pressure of a ladder round