Term
Definition
Example
Poetry Terms and Poetic Sound Devices
Alliteration
Allusion
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Approximate (slant)
Rhyme
End Rhyme
Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of words that are close together in a poem.
Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture.
Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem.
Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem.
Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning.
Repetition of accented vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem.
When two words have sound in common but do not rhyme exactly. Occur at the ends of lines.
flung the shutter, when with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of saintly days of yore.
Henry uses an allusion to the wise men from the cast called
“The Magi” who presented the infant jesus with the first christmas gift.
Seeing the snowman standing all alone In dusk and cold is more than he can bear. The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare A night of gashing and enormous moan. rubber baby buggy bumpers
And in the hush of waters was the sound Of pebbles, rolling round; Forever rolling
Choice/Voice Know/go
half rhymes, off rhymes, or slant rhymes. My last defense
Is the present tense.
It little hurts me now to know
I shall not go
Cathedralhunting in Spain
Internal Rhyme
Occur in the middle of a line.
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
Meter
Generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Rhythm
Musical quality in language produced by repetition.
Tone
Attitude a writes takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience. The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a poem, speech, or other piece of writing.
A line or lines repeated at regular intervals in a poem or song, usually at the end of a stanza. Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Repetition
Refrain
Blank verse
Free Verse
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. Iambic Pentameter
Line of poetry that contains five iambs
Long story told in elevated language which relates the
Epic
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary The way a crow A
Shook down on me B
The dust of snow A
From a hemlock tree B
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees
1 2 3
A B C
Its okay with me!
Oh my gosh! I can’t believe you did that. She screamed like I had just slapped her.
Martin Luther King’s “I have A
Dream” speech.
It’s like the chorus of a song.
Something there that doesn’t love a wall
That sends the frozengroundswell under it,
And spills the double in the sun
The fog comes on little cat feet
It sits looking
Over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on
But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
“By the shore of Gitche Gumee
By the shining big sea water at the doorway of his wigwam
Ballad
Sonnet
Lyric Poetry
Elegy
great deeds of a largerthanlife hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
Song that tells a story.
Fourteenline lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.
Poetry that does not tell a story but is aimed only at expressing a speaker’s emotions or thoughts.
A serious poem morning death or other loss.
Ode
A long serious lyric poem that is elevated in tone and style.
Stanza
A