Terms Used In Poetry

Terms Used in Poetry

Types of Poems:

1. Ballad: A slow popular song typically about love, narrated, any light, simple song especially about romantic events.
2. Elegy: a sad poem or song: a poem or song that expresses sorrow for someone/Something who is dead
3. Epic: telling a story about a hero or about exciting events or adventures\
4. Epitaph: something written or said in memory of a dead person; especially: words written on a gravestone
5. Idyl: a simple poem or other piece of writing that describes peaceful country life
6. Imagist Poem: a 20th century movement in poetry advocating free verse and the expression of ideas and emotions through clear precise images

7. Limerick: a humorous rhyming poem of five lines aabba

8. Lyric: Poem: a poem that expresses deep personal feelings in a way that is like a song

9. Narrative Poem: Tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metred verse. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex.

10. Ode: a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something

11. Sonnet: a poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern

12. Concrete Poetry: poetry in which the poet's intent is conveyed by the graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the conventional arrangement of words

13. Dramatic Poem: any drama that is written in verse that is meant to be recited. It usually tells a story or refers to a situation. This would include closet drama, dramatic monologues, and rhyme verse. Narrated by the characters them selves.

14. Haiku: an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables

15. Epigram: a short and clever poem or saying

Terms and Devices used in Poetry:

1. Blank Verse: poetry that is not rhymed but that has a regular rhythm

2. Free Verse: poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a regular rhythm

3. Meter: the basic pulse and rhythm of a piece of music.

4. Foot: The basic unit of verse meter consisting of any of various fixed combinations or groups of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables

5. Rhythm: The patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound.

6. Parallelism: the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same

7. Rhyme Scheme: The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

8. Refrain: a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.

9. Stanza: a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

10. Couplet: the basic pulse and rhythm of a piece of music.

11. Quatrain: a stanza of four lines, esp. one having alternate rhymes.

12. Lyric: expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

13. Caesura: a pause near the middle of a line.

14. End-Stopped Line: A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break

15. Run-on line no punctuation at the end of a line