POETIC TERMS

POETIC TERMS                 

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a. A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another. METAPHOR

b. A lyric poem that is fourteen lines long SONNET

c. A pair of lines that are the same length and rhyme and form a complete thought COUPLET

d. The repetition of the same consonant sounds, mainly at the beginning of words ALLITERATION

e. A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables HAIKU

f. The use of pictures, figures of speech and description to evoke ideas, feelings, actions,  etc. IMAGERY

g. a figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds ONOMATOPOEIA

h. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words RHYME 

  

i. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word “ like” or “as” SIMILE

j. Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem STANZA

k. The regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements RHYTHM