Poetic Terms

deliberate exaggeration made for effect

• hyperbole

• extended metaphor

• paraphrase

• enjambment

a type of figurative language in which an animal, thing, force of nature, or idea is described as if it were human or given human characteristics

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• sonnet

a fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter that follows a set rhyme scheme

• sonnet

• quatrain

• rhyme scheme

• extended metaphor

an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

• iamb

• alliteration

• end rhyme

• metaphor

A triolet:

• a lengthy poem

• a short Japanese poem about nature

• a poem of 8 lines, with lines 1, 3, 7 and 2, 8 repeating

• a rhyming poem meant to be humorous

A quatrain:

• a two line stanza

• a short Japanese poem about nature

• a five line stanza

• a four line stanza

Rhyme scheme

• two words rhyme

• the pattern of how words in a poem rhyme, including approximate rhymes

• must be exact rhymes

Stanza:

• The title of the poem

• The subject of the poem

• A group of lines in a poem

• How many lines there are in the poem

Repetition:

• A word is repeated in a line/stanza

• The first letter of a word is repeated

• A vowel sound in the middle of words is repeated

• The ends of multiple words have the same sound

Assonance:

• A vowel sound is repeated

• A consonant sound is repeated

• The initial sound of a word is repeated

• A word is repeated in a line/stanza