Poems and Such

Assorted Poems Week 2

Claudia Richey

Eng/125

May 2, 2012

Bridgette Weir

Assorted Poems Week 2

To begin a journey one must have a destination. A roadmap of sorts to guide the writer and reader into a direction unknown when started but familiar when the journey is completed. For instance you are planning a vacation to a specific location; if you do not own a GPS or you do not have one built into your vehicle you must use a map. Maps are like a glossary, the map gives you directions of miles and latitude while the glossary gives description of words used in stories or poems. On this journey the glossary will guide us, the reader, through poems.

Glossary of Poetic Terms in Alphabetical Order

Alliteration:

The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.

Couplet:

A pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed

Diamante:

A seven line poem, shaped like a diamond

Free Verse:

Poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc…

Haiku:

Poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form

Imagery:

The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work

Limerick:

A five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet

Metaphor:

A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as.

Mood:

A state of mind or emotion, a pervading impression of observation

Onomatopoeia:

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. Most often, however, onomatopoeia refers to words and groups of words

Personification:

The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities.

Repetition: A sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry. It may reinforce,...