Darleen ELA Vocabulary for Poetry

The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts

The every day language people use when they speak or write

The way a poem moves

Counted beats per line

Has no fixed pattern of meter or rhythm

Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Contains 5 iambic beats in a line

Each time your voice rises and falls with a group of 2 or 3 syllables with an accention/syllable

Each metrical foot made up of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

Each time syllables and I accented syllable (ex. Galloping sounds)

1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unsressed syllables

The repitition of the beginning consonats (ex. Cathy can catch a cat)

The repitition od a vowel sound (ex. Anna ate apples all day)

When the repeted consonance sound is not always at the beginning of the word (ex. The moon shown through Nina’s window)

The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent

The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream

A figure of speech in witch two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose”

A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God”

A kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet

A short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables

Verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.

A three-line unrhymed Japanese poem structurally similar to a haiku but treating human nature usually in an ironic or satiric vein.

A short poem of songlike quality

A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.

Identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.

Rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line

Rhyming words at the end of a line

A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length

a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines followed by a minor group of 6 lines and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.

A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable

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