Composition Poetry Terms

Epic

• Long, narrative poem with heroic characters

• A short poem with no plot structure

• A poem that has been around for a long time

• A written piece that is amazing and unbelievable

Figurative Language

• Words that convey the opposite meaning

• Language that uses figures and numbers

• Types of language that are expressive and impactful

• Patterns and rhythms in writings

Personification

• Pertaining to a specific human

• When the poem sounds like a human voice

• Giving objects human-like characteristics

• A person that the poem is about

Internal Rhyme

• The patterns of end rhymes

• Rhymes within lines

• Rhymes inside of figurative language

• Internally keeping a rhythm

Alliteration

• Repetition of vowel sounds at the end of words

• Repetition of vowel sounds inside the words

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beinnging of words

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words

Irony

• When the opposite of what you expect happens

• Something with concrete meaning

• Something that stands for something more than itself

• Humor included in poems

Metaphor

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Comparing two things that are not similar

• Comparing to things that are alike

• Contrasting two things

Symbol

• Pictures and signs instead of words

• Objects representing something life-like

• Stressed and unstressed syllables

• An object representing another to give it more meaning

Imagery

• To form a mental imagination

• Symbolic ways to represent poems

• Words that paint a picture using the five senses

• Colorful ideas to bring the reader to life

Rhyme Scheme

• End rhymes identified using letters of alphabet

• Repetition of accented sounds

• Rhyming throughout the beginning of lines

• Stressed and unstressed syllables