Poetry Terms

 A song or songlike poem that tells a story mostly dealing with adventure or romance

• Assonance
• Ballad
• Homonym
• Narrative

   A poem that tells a story

• Elegy
• Assonance
• Refrain
• Narrative

The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; vowel rhyme

• Assonance

• Narrative

• Lyric

Two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling

• Oxymoran
• Irony
• Homonym
• Refrain

A mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead

• Elegy

• Oxymoran

• Personificication

When the outcome is the opposite of what was expected

• Oxymoran
• Assonance
• Irony
• Prose

A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea if given human qualities or characteristics

• Elegy
• Personificication
• Irony
• Refrain

A very short and humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme

• Limerick

• Elegy

• Prose

• Narrative

  A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• Lyric

• Cocophony

• Meter

• Haiku

Four-line stanza

• Quatrain
• Narrative
• Prose
• Cocophony