poetry/ drama terms

a story written to be performed by actors

• drama

• dramatic poetry

• poetry

• concrete poem

a poems rythmical pattern

• rhythm

• rhyme

• meter

• rhyme scheme

the imagery voice assumed by the writer of the poem

• sonnet

• soliloquy

• speaker

• stage directions

poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

• free verse

• blank verse

• rhyme

• rhythm

a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• rhyme

• repetition

a long speech expressing the thoughts of a charecter alone on stage

• aside

• sonnet

• assonance

• soliloquy

the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables

• assonance

• alliteration

• rhyme

• aside

the set of associations that occur to people when they hear or read a word

• connotation

• denotation

• assonance

• soliloquy

a three-line japanese verse form

• concrete poem

• dramatic poetry

• lyric poem

• haiku

the use of words that immitate sounds

• alliteration

• onomatopeia

• assonance

• connotaion