Poetry Vocab

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Onomatopoeia

Figure of speech where words are used to imitate sounds. Eg. Splat, buzz, hiss.

Assonance

Repitition/ pattern of vowel sounds

Consonance

Repitition/ pattern of consonant sounds

Alliteration

Repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words. Eg. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Stanza

“Paragraph” of a Poem.

Posh verb for verse

Verse

“Paragraph” of a Poem. How the lines are arranged.

Line

One line of poetry

Narrative Voice

Voice that tells teh story. Some are in 3rd person, other in 1st person.

Narrative Persona

The invented voice that presents the narrative. The ‘I’ of teh poem but not necessarily the author.

Abstract vs. Concrete Nouns

Abstract: Nouns we cannot feel/touch, often emotions, concepts

Concrete: Nouns we can see (objects, places)

Polysyndeton

A(n intentional!!) exagerated use of a connecting words eg. and.

Speaker

Narrator but for poetry

Free verse

Poem with no regular rhythm or rhyme scheme

Enjambment

When there’s no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry, making it flow on to the next line.

Rhyme

The occurace of a similar sound at the end of two or more words.

Refrain

A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated in a poem.

Rhythm

Pattern of pulsed beat in a line or stanza.

Structure

The organization of a poem into sections. includes line length and no. of lines & stanzas.

Tense

The time setting for the poem (past, present, future)

Elegy

Mournful, melancholic poem. Especially funeral song or lament for the dead.

Form

The organizing principle for literary work. In poetry, described in terms of rhyme, meter, and stanzaic pattern.

Genre

The type of text that a text belongs to

Ode

A poem devoted to a person or thing.

Pastoral

A poem which deals in teh simplicity and beauty of rural life.

Sonnet

14 lined poem with rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Often about love and romance.

Envoy

The shorter final stanza of a poem

End Stopped

The end of enjambment

Caesura

A natural break in the middle of a line of poetry

Free indirect speech

AC of writing a character's first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator

Invocation

Address to a deity

Kenning

Figurative compound noun that take steh place of a regular noun. Eg. Ocean is called Whale-Path

Litote

Opposite of Hyperbole (intentional understatement).

Volta

Turn of thought or agurement in a poem

Zuegma

The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.