A Guide To Poetry Styles & Terms

Poetry is made up of so many specific patters and- How to write Pantoum poetry
language. There are as many forms of poetry as-What is Palindrome Poetry ?
there are writers who pen it. Here I have gather- Forms of Poetry for Children
some resources to specific patterns of poetry and I- Diamonte Poetry
have attempted to describe for you the figurative- What is an acrostic poem?
language found in poetry.- Acrostic Poetry
Specific Patterns of Poetry- How to Write a Clerihew Poem
- What is Traditional Poetry?traditional" poetry is the- The Art of Haiku Poetry
kind of poetry we hear most often. Traditional- How to Write Limerick Poetry
poetry has a certain formex: Humpty-Dumpty sat on- How to write Cinquain Poetry
a wall, Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall;What is a metaphor?a figure of speech in which an
- What is Free Verse Poetry?expression is used to refer to something that it does
Free verse is poetry that is written without propernot literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc.Understanding metaphors
The greatest American writer of free verse isWhat is a simile?a figure of speech that expresses a
probably Walt Whitmanresemblance between things of different kinds
With free verse the poem can tell a story, describe a(usually formed with `like' or `as')
person, animal, feeling or object. They can serious,- The Simile Satellite Activities This site explores the
sad, funny or educational. There are no limitsfunction, form and effect of simile in poetry.
- What is a tongue twister?an expression that isWhat is alliteration ?the repetition of consonant
difficult to articulate clearly; "`Peter Piper picked asounds - usually at the beginning of words
peck of pickled peppers. ' is a tongue twister"What is onomatopoeia?a word that sounds like the
-What is ode poetry?thing it describes
An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person,Example: splash, wow, gush, kerplunk
place or thing.What is a trope?
- What is Monorhyme Poetry?The intentional use of a word or expression
A poem in which all the lines have the same endfiguratively, i.e., used in a different sense from its
rhyme.original significance in order to give vividness or
Ex:emphasis to an idea. Some important types of trope
Late for school I'm looking like a big fool My brotherare: antonomasia, irony, metaphor, metonymy and
thinks he rules While I'm loosing my coolsynecdoche. Sidelight: Strictly speaking, a trope is the
- What is monody Poetry?figurative use of a word or expression, while figure
A monody is a poem in which one person lamentsof speech refers to a phrase or sentence used in a
another's death, as in Tennyson's Break, Break,figurative sense. The two terms, however, are often
Break, or Wordsworth's She Dwelt Among theconfused and used interchangeably
Untrodden Ways.Examples: Metaphor, simile, oxymoron, and hyperbole
- What is Concrete Poetry?poetry in which the poet'sare all kinds of figurative language.
intent is conveyed by the shape formed by theWhat is personification?a person who represents an
letters, words, or symbols that make up the poemabstract quality; "she is the personification of
rather than by the conventional arrangement ofoptimism"
wordsWhat is Synonyms?words or phrases which have
Here is a good example of a concrete poemsimilar meaning.
- What is Quatrain Poetry?What is a stanza?a fixed number of lines of verse
A Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines of verseforming a unit of a poem
with a specific rhyming scheme.What is imagery?
A few examples of a quatrain rhyming scheme's areImage is language that evokes one or all of the five
as follows:senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
#1) abab #2) abba -- envelope rhyme #3) aabb #4)What is a muse?
aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd -- chain rhyme