Writing in the Classroom: Middle School: Poetry

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  1. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  2. bard
    a lyric poet
  3. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
  4. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  5. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  6. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  7. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  8. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  9. verse
    a line of metrical text
  10. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  11. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  12. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  13. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  14. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  15. epigram
    a short, witty, satirical poem focusing on a single topic
  16. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  17. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  18. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  19. poetic
    characterized by romantic imagery
  20. lyrical
    expressing deep emotion
Created on Thu Jul 28 09:31:34 EDT 2022 (updated Tue Aug 02 12:05:03 EDT 2022)

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