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=**__Poetry Vocabulary Terms Study Guide__**=

**Forms of Poetry:**
[] __**Sonnet:**__a fourteen line rhythmic poem. Most are written in iambic pentameter and have a regular rhyme scheme. Examples of __Shakespearean and Petrarchan Sonnets:__ [] __**Catalog Poem:**__ presents a list of many different images. A catalog of images can create depth and intensity in the poem. Example: [] "Morning Sounds All Around" by Serina Matteson. __**Ballad:**__ a song that tells a story. They use a steady rhythm, strong rhymes, and repitition. Example: []
 * __Lyric Poem:__**a poem that expresses a speaker's emotions or thoughts. It does not tell a story. Most lyric poems are shortand convey a single strong emotion. Example: [] "A Blessing" by James Wright.
 * __Free Verse:__** poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. Poets writing in free verse try to capture natural rhythms in ordinary speech. Example: [] "in-just" by E.E Cummings.
 * __Haiku:__**a three line poem with 17 syllables - five syllables in lines 1 and 3 and seven syllables in line 2. Haiku poems usually contrast two images from nature or daily life. They may also include a seasonal word and a moment of discovery. Example
 * __Shakespearean Sonnet:__** a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
 * __Petrarchan Sonnet:__** a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd.

**The Sounds of Poetry:**
__**Rhyme:**__ repitition of a stressed vowel sound and any words that follow it in words that are close together in a poem. Examples: nails and whales, material and cereal, icicle and bicycle. __**Rhyme Scheme:**__ a regular pattern of end rhymes. You can use letters to describe rhyme scheme[] this poem in the link has an abab rhyme scheme because lines 1 and 3 rhyme; so do lines 2 and 4. __**Internal Rhyme:**__rhymes that ocur when at least one of the rhymed words falls within a line. These rhymes can be much less obvious than end rhyme. [] the first 4 lines in the second stanza follow the abba rhyme scheme. __**Rhythm:**__ a musical quality based on the repitition. When you talk about the beat you hear when you read a poem. you are describing its rhythm. __**Meter:**__ this is one common form of rhythm, a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of the poem. You can sacn a poem to identify its meter. Stressed syllables are marked '; unstressed syllables are marked with a small u symbol. __**Foot:**__ this usually consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables[|http://www.annies-annex.com/poetry.htm#Meter] and Foot //click on meter and foot in the link to learn more about these terms.//
 * __Approximate Rhyme:__** these rhymes repeat some sounds but are not exact echoes. Approximate rhymes are also called half rhymes, near rhymes, and slant rhymes. Instead of an exact rhyme like moon and June, approximate rhyme is a partial echo, like moon and morn.

**Sound Devices:**
__**Alliteration:**__Repeating the same consonant sound in several words []
 * __Onomatopoeia:__**using words that sound like what they mean []
 * __Assonance:__**Repeating the same vowel sounds in several words []

**Miscellaneous Poetry Terms:**
__**Denotation:**__ Literal dictionary definition __**Couplet:**__Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme [] __**Mood:**__ atmosphere that the writer's word choice creates __**Tone:**__ the writer's attitude the topic __**Theme:**__ central idea of a work of literature.
 * __Connotation:__** meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to it.
 * __Stanza:__** group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single line
 * __Parallel Stucture:__**Repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structureor that state a similar idea []