Poetry Terms 

• Alliteration - is the repetition of initial sounds is neighboring words or in stressed syllables
• Analogy  - is the comparison of 2 pairs wich have the same relationship
• Assonance - is the repetition of vowel sounds but not constant sound.
• Consonance - is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels.
• Ballad - A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzaz and adapted for singing.
• Blank Verse -  unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic bentameter most frequently used in dramatic english.
• Figurative Language -  a word used beyond their ordinary meaning.
• Free Verse -  a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.
• Imagery - the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images.
• Lyric Poem- Sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
• Narrative Poem - A poem that has a plot, they make up a gene it may be short or long and relates to a simple complex.
• Ode- A lyric  of some length, usually of serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style.
• Rhyme - A  poem or verse having a regular correspondence of of sounds, especially at the ends of lines
• Rhythm - Movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alteration of different quantities of conditions
• Shakespearean Sonnet - A sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains, typically with the rhyme scheme
• Petrarchan Sonnet - a sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a and a sestet following any of various patterns.
• Haiku - a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture
• Cinquain - poetic form using 5 lines, containing two, four, six, eight, & two syllables
• Sonnet - a poem, properly expressive of a single, completethought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines. Going abab cdcd efef gg