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1. Alliteration:– Repetition of initial

consonant sounds– Example: Sister Suzy sat on

the seashore until suddenly she was swallowed by a shark.

2. Allusion:– A reference to a well-known

person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

3. Ballad:– A song-like poem that tells

a story4.Blank Verse:

– Poetry that is unrhymed but has a pattern

5.Concrete Poem:– A poem that creates a

shape that suggests the subject

– Example: George Herbert’s Easter Wings and The Alter

6. Figurative Language:– Writing that is not

meant to be taken literally

– Example: He made me so mad I wanted to die.

7. Free Verse:– Poetry not written in a

regular rhythmical pattern or meter

8. Image:– A word or phrase that appeals

to one or more of the five senses

9. Lyric Poem:– musical verse that expresses

the observations and feelings of a single speaker

10.Metaphor:– Comparison between 2 unlike

things without using like or as– Example: He is such a pig when he

eats!

11. Mood:– The feeling created in the reader

by a literary work

12. Onomatopoeia:– The use of words that imitate

sounds– Example: The buzz of the bee was

very loud.

13.Personification:– a non-human subject is given

human characteristics– Example: The tree waved excitedly

in the wind.

14. Repetition:– The use, more than once, of any

element of language

15. Rhyme:– Repetition of sounds at the end

of words– Example: Roses are red, violets are

blue…..

16. Rhyme Scheme:– A regular pattern of

rhyming words in a poem

17. Rhythm:– Pattern of beats or stresses

in spoken or written language

18. Simile:

– uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

19. Stanza:– A formal division of lines in a

poem considered as a unit

My love is like a red rose.

20. Motif – Main or reoccurring theme.

21. Extended Metaphor – metaphor over several lines of poetry.

22. Pun – Double meaning

23. Confessional poetry – confession of an activity or an emotion

24. Elegy – Pays tribute to a person (usually dead)

25. Imagist poetry – uses lots of images to paint a picture for the reader.

26. Limerick– short, humorous poem in 5 lines

27. Acrostic Poem – a poem where the first letter of each word, spells out another word or message

28. Hyperbole– extreme exaggeration for humor

29. Couplet– a rhymed pair of lines

30. Heroic Couplet – 2 rhyming lines at the end of an epic

31. Irony– when what is expected and what happens

are different(V, S, D)

32. Epic– long, narrative poem about a hero

33. Haiku– poem of 17 syllables, arranged in lines of 5, 7, 5

34. Meter– pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

35. Ode– a lyric poem with serious themes; pays tribute to something

36. Oxymoron– when opposite terms appear together (ex: jumbo shrimp)

37. Parody– a poem created to imitate or impersonate something else; usually for humor

38. Prose– poetry that is not in verse form

39. Refrain– one or more lines that are repeated in the same spot of each stanza of a poem

40. Sonnet– poem written in a specific pattern and that contains 14 lines.

41. Stress– emphasis on a certain word or syllable of a poem

42. Symbol– person or object that represents something

43. Tone – the author’s attitude about a subject

44. Palindrome– a word that reads the same backwards and forwards

Limericks• A limerick is a poem of five lines• The first, second, and fifth lines

have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another.

• The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another.

• They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.

Humor• Humor in poetry can

arise from a number of sources:

– Surprise– Exaggeration– Bringing together

of unrelated things

• Most funny poems have two things in common:

– Rhythm– Rhyme

Rhythm & Rhyme• Using more spirited language makes

humorous situations even more humorous

“The Porcupine”By Ogden Nash

Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan’t be blamed for harboring grudges.

I know one hound that laughed all winter

At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor

vanishes.

Any hound that touches a porcupineCan’t be blamed for holding a grudge

I know one hound that laughed all winter long

At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood

LimericksThere once was a man with no

hair.He gave everyone quite a scare.

He got some Rogaine,Grew out a mane,

And now he resembles a bear!

Limerick About a BeeI wish that my room had a

floor,I don’t care so much for a

door.But this walking around

Without touching the groundIs getting to be quite a bore.

Another Limerick

There once was a very small mouseWho lived in a very small house,

The ocean’s sprayWashed it away,

All that was left was her blouse!

You will create a limerick similar to this

one…

There once was a man from Beijing.All his life he hoped to be King.

So he put on a crown,Which quickly fell down.

That small silly man from Beijing.

Fill in the blanks and create your own

Limerick.

There once was a _____ from _____.All the while she/he hoped ________.

So she/he ____________________,And ________________________,

That _________ from ___________.