British Poetry Day 1, 2 & 3

expresses personal or emotional feelings; usually written in rhythm/ rhyme and can be sung

• Lyric Poetry

• Narrative Poetry

• Ballad

• Conceit

Poetry that tells a story

• Lyric Poetry

• Narrative Poetry

• Sonnet

• Concrete Poetry

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things not using like or as

• Conceit

• Metaphor

• Caesura

• Simile

A technique of "extending" a metaphor through an entire poem

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Conceit

• Paradox

A type of poem, usually a narrative set to music and sometimes intended for dancing

• Sonnet

• Lyric Poetry

• Ballad

• Concrete Poem

The physical structure of a poem

• Tone

• Mood

• Stanza

• Form

Poetry with a set rhyme scheme and meter

• Closed Form

• Open Form

• Boxed Form

• Freedom Form

Poetry with no set rhyme or rhythm

• Closed Form

• Free Form

• Open Form

• No Form

A group of lines that form divisions in poetry

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Stanza

• Lines

Stanza of two lines

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Sestet

• Octave