English Poem Vocabulary
Assonance
-vowel sounds are repeated
Consonance
-first letter continent (why a wheel)
Alliteration
-repeating one word a lot
Euphony-Cacophony
-combined letters to sound nice
Personification
-personalized (first person)
Apostrophe
-talking to yourself
Oxymoron
-2 contradicting words
Paradox
-suprisingy true
Anapestic Tetrameter
-rhythm scheme (- - | - - | - - | )
Italian/Petrachan
- 8 line and 8 line poem (2 octaves)
Octave
- 8 lines in a poem
Sestet
-6 lines in a poem
Lyric
-first person poem about feelings
Ballad
-tragity and drama
Ballad Rhyme Scheme
- basically shackspear
Onomatopoeia
-a word that describes a sound (splat)
Imagery
The description of something you can picture
Simile
comparing two things (includes like)
Metaphor
saying two things are the same (the…was a…)
Rhythm/Meter
the placement of down beats in the poem
Iambic Pentameter
10 syllables, starts on strong beat (^-^-^-^-^-)
Rhyme Scheme
add to the ending rhyme words (a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d…)
Sonnet
contain 3 quatrain, end with a couplet
Quatrain
the 3 main body pieces of a poem`
Couplet
last two lines rhyming at the end of a poem
Analogy
compare two things (as a …)
Narrative
style, used to tell a story
Epic
story about how cool someone is
Haiku
a poem with a 5-7-5 rhythm scheme
English/Shakespearean
14 lines with a couplet
Beowulf
old, grendel poem-no author
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
compare girl to summer-imagery-shake
All the world’s a stage
compare life to theater-similes-shake
Destruction of Sennacherib
battle, comparison,bible-other
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
play on words, imagery,descriptive-other
Cook’s Mountains
glass mountains, shiny,imagery, free verse-other
Here Comes The Sun
personal,song,imagery-other
Dream Deferred
- simple, practice,putoff poem,imagery-other
Psalm 23
bible, imagery, protection,peace,metaphor,analogy-david