Elements of Poetry

Narrative Poetry

poetry that tells a story

Dramatic Poetry

is a verse that relies heavily on dramatic elements such as monologue or dialogue. Often are narratives - which means they usually tell a story

Lyric Poetry

is a highly musical verse that expresses a spreaker's emotions

Sonnet

Is a fourteen-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, that follows one of a number of different rhyme schemes

Ode

A lofty lyric poem on a serious theme

Free Verse

Poetry that avoids the use of regular rhyme, meter, or division in stanzas

Elegiac Lyric

expresses a speaker's feelings of loss, often because of the death of a loved on or a friend

Imagist Poem

a lyric poem that presents a single vivid picture in words

Metrical verse

folows a set rhythmic pattern

Meter

of a poem is its rhythmical pattern (regular)

Stanza

a group of lines in a poem

rhythm

is the pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose

Rhyme

the repetition of sounds at the end of words

End rhyme

is rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

internal rhyme

is the use of rhyming words within lines

slant rhyme

half rhyme, near rhyme or off rhyme is the substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme

Alliteration

Is the repetition of initial consonant sounds

Assonance

is the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed sylables that end with different consonant sounds. "molten-golden notes"

consonance

is a kind of slant rhyme in which the ending consonant of two words math, but the preceding vowel sound does not, as in the words wind and sound

Onomatopoeia

is the use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer such as POW

parallelism

is a rhetoical technique in which a writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form

antithesis

is a rhetorical technique in which words, phrases, or ideas are strongly contrasted, often by means of a repetition of grammatical structures

Hyperbole

extreme exaggeration use for rhetorical effect

juxtaposition

occurs when an author places two things side by side to highlight their differences. Ideas, images, characters, and actions are all things that can be juxtaposed with one another.

ex. Cinderella to juxtapose the good-natured main character with a cruel step-sibling.

Apostrophe

a direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, a god, or a person not living or present.