Has one speaker who expresses a strong feeling. It has a musical quality due to its
rhyme/rhyme pattern. - ANS-Lyric Poetry
Has a serious topic. Emotional, often about love or death - ANS-Ode
Commemorates someone who is dead, often ending in consolation - ANS-Elegy
Fixed form of poetry that consists of 14 lines with iambic pentameter. - ANS-Sonnet
Tells a story; has a plot line - ANS-Narrative Poetry
Has a musical rhythm. Usually in quatrains or cinquains. About ordinary people. - ANS-Ballad
Long narrative. Recounts the deeds of legendary or historical hero. - ANS-Epic
Describes the world that surrounds the speaker. - ANS-Descriptive Poetry
Involves two or more phrases that repeat the same sound. - ANS-Rhyme
Set by the ending word in each line. indicated by letters and start over again at the start of each
stanza. - ANS-Rhyme Pattern
Rhyme patterns give a musical quality to poetry. - ANS-Rhythm
5 short sections of 2 syllables - ANS-Iambic Pentameter
A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as". - ANS-Simile
A comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as". - ANS-Metaphor
Something that represents something else - ANS-Symbol
The attribute of human characteristics to nonhuman things. - ANS-Personification
The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words. -
ANS-Alliteration
The repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words. - ANS-Assonance