Poetry Terms and Types of Poems

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Poetry Terms and Types of Poems
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StanzaA group of lines of poetry, like a
paragraph, set off usually by a blank space.
Poets create stanzas for a reason. The lines
belong together.
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Rhyme

• The repetition of sound, almost always to achieve
  an effect or to create a rhythm.  (Page 2)
• end rhyme is the repetition of the end sounds of
  the words at the ends of lines of poetry(page
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• near rhyme or off rhyme or slant rhyme is not
  quite true or pure - "tree" rhyme with
  "hurry"(page 4)
• internal rhyme rhymes a word in the middle of a
  line of poetry with a word elsewhere in the line.
  (page 5)

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• internal rhyme rhymes a word in the middle of a
  line of poetry with a word elsewhere in the line.
  (page 5)

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Quatrain

• A stanza or poem of four lines. Lines 2 and 4
  must rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme.
  Rhyming lines should have a similar number of
  syllables.

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Ballad

• Ballads are narrative poems or songs of popular
  origin often with a repeating line or stanza that
  is important to the topic of the poem
• Ballads often reflect folk tales, legends and
  love stories which are often sung.

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Couplet

• Two lines of poetry where the last word of both
  lines rhyme.
• Example
• The lighthouse lights up the beach
• The light it gives is out of reach

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Elegy

• A sad and thoughtful poem lamenting (mourning)
  the death of a person.

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Epic

• Long, serious poems that tell the story of a
  heroic figure. Some of the most famous epic poems
  are The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

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Ode

• Long poems which are serious in nature and are
  usually written to praise someone or something.

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Sonnet

• English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric
  poems that are 14 lines long falling into three
  coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet.

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Lyric

• A short poem that expresses personal feeling or
  emotion (it does not tell a story). They usually
  have a rhyme scheme.
• A sonnet is a type of lyric poem. Other types of
  lyrics are
• Ballades (not ballad) (bel-ahd)
• Villanelles (villa-nell)
• Minnesang (minna-song)
• Pastourelle (pastor-ell)
• Canzone (canzoni)
• Stev

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Alliteration

• Repeating the beginning sound of words.
• Example
• His hairy hamster hammered Henrys happy
  helicopter.

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Rhyme Scheme

• A pattern of rhyming in a poem
• Example AABBCC

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Onomatopoeia

• Words that imitate the sound they make.
• Example
• BOOM
• BOING
• CRASH
• BANG