Alliteration: the repetition of a consonant sound in words that are close together

Betty Botter

Assonance: the repetition of a vowel sound in words that are close together
fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks

Couplets: two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

A Minor Bird

Rhyme Scheme: the regular pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines in a poem or stanza
A Minor Bird
Annabel Lee

Internal Rhyme: rhymes that occur within lines of poetry End Rhyme: rhymes at the end of lines of poetry

Meter: a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry Free Verse: poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme Extended Metaphor: a metaphor that is developed, or extended, through several lines of writing or even through an entire poem

Stanza: group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit

Betty Botter

Imagery: language that appeals to the senses

You Cant Write a Poem About McDonalds

Onomatopoeia: The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning
Zap! Buzz Squish

Refrain: a repeated sound, word, phrase, line or group of lines

Annabel Lee

a poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story
Dying by Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power.

Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story

Annabel Lee

Sonnet: a fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter

Shakespeares Sonnets Sonnet 29

Iambic Pentameter: One short syllable followed by one long one five sets in a row. Example: la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH la-LAH

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
(sonnet)

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
(Terms)

Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter-that would make my batter better."
So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

(Terms) (Terms 4)

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
(Terms 2) (Terms 4) (Narrative)