Poetry Terms

Alliteration:  repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words.
Analogy:  A comparison  of an unfamiliar object to a familiar  one in an attempt to explain or illuminate the unfamiliar.
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or line.
Consonance: A repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.
Ballad: Poems  that tell a story similar to a folk tale or legend  and often has a repeated refrain; story in poetic  form.
Blank verse: unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length, especialy iambic pentameter.
Figurative language: language in which figures of  speech(metaphors,similes,etc) freely occur.
Free verse: verse composed of variable usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.
Haiku: A traditional Japanese poem consisting of 5,7,5 syllable units.
Imagery:The use of vivid of figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
Lyric poem: A poem expressing a strong emotion.
Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story.
Ode: A poem in praise of a person,place, or object that is usually identified in the tittle.
Rhyme:  A word, syllable, or line that ends with a sound that corresponds to another.
Rhythm: A strong, regular, repealed pattern of movement or sound.
Shakespearean sonnet: A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhythm pattern abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
Petrarchan sonnet: a sonnet consisting of a octave with the rhythm pattern abbaabba followed  by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cddeede or cdcdcd.