Litereary Poem Notes

Literary Terms for Poetry

1. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds

2. Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables

3. Blank Verse: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines

4. Concrete Poem: A poem with a shape that suggests it's subject

5. Consonance: the repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables

6. Couplet: A pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter

7. Dramatic Poetry: Poetry that involves the techniques of drama

8. Epic: A long narrative poem about the deed of gods and heroes

9. Extended Metaphor: A subject is spoken or written of as though it were something else

10. Free Verse: Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

11. Haiku: Japanese poem written in 5-7-5 needs to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature

12. Lyric Poem: A highly musical verse that expresses the observations of the writer

13. Mood: The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. The mood is often suggested by descriptive details

14. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate sounds

15. Parody: A work done in imitation of another, usually in order to mock it, but sometimes just in fun

16. Personification: A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

17. Pun: A play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike

18. Refrain: A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

19. Repetition: The use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence

20. Rhyme: The repetition of sounds at the ends of words- internal