poem terms

lyric

feelings poem

narrative

story poem

epic

long narrative poems

Odyssey

epic

ode

profound emotion poem(→lyric but longer)

elegy

mourning poem

light verse

funny poem

dramatic monologue

poem in which speaker addresses silent listeners

allusion

brief reference

hyperbole

exaggeration

metaphor

comparison btw two unrelated objects

direct metaphor

directly compares

indirect metaphor

indirectly compares

Grace is a fish in the sea

direct metaphor

Grace wolfed down some waffles

indirect metaphor

extended metaphor

entire poem is metaphor

conceit

exaggerated colmparison

her eyes are brighter than the moon

conceit

metonymy

person is replaced with a object

personification

a thing is given human qualities

similes

like as comparison

symbol

something that stands for something

stars ( in r & j)

symbol

synecdoche

part represent whole thing

Texas won ten games in a row

synecdoche

pun

play on words

paradox

contradiction that makes sense

less is more

paradox

irony

contrast btw reality and what is imagined

alliteration

same consonant sound beginning of words

assonance

same vowel sounds

rain in spain falls on the plains

assonance

consonance

same consonant sounds

a bend that transcends the aspen

consonance

anaphora

repetition of a phrase

I have a dream

anaphora

antithesis

contrast of ideas in parallel sentences

When the rich wage war, it is the poor who will die

antithesis

polysyndeton

lots of conjunctions

hes loves grace and Chloe and Kevin and Andrew and David equally

polysyndeton

parallelism

repetition of a parallel phrase

she wanted to hug, to kiss, to love her boyfriend

parallelism

end stopped lines

lines with a stop (with punctutation)

enjambment

sentence that stretches across many lines

refrain

regularly recurring phrase

stanza

paragraph but for poems

meter

stessed/unstessed syllables

free verse

un- rhymed iambic pentameter

blank verse

poem with no structure

syllabic verse

syllables is fixed verse

haiku

syllabic verse

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blank verse