This document provides definitions and explanations of various poetry terms and techniques, including types of poetry like narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry. It also defines poetic forms like ballads, sonnets, odes, and epics. Additionally, it covers poetic devices such as rhyme, meter, figures of speech, and rhetorical techniques. The document uses examples to illustrate different poetic concepts in an educational style.

1. Poetry Terms and Techniques Ms. Aixa Rodriguez Belmont Preparatory High School ESL/ELA

5. Ballad : a narrative poem, sometimes sung, that tells a dramatic story.

11. Concrete poem is written in a shape that adds meaning to the poem.

13. Free verse : poetry with no set rhythm or rhyme.

17. Elegy or Elegiac poem: a meditative poem mourning the death of an individual.

36. Triplet or tercet : any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered. I am a yellow dog who wishes he was a purple-spotted frog.

53. Poetry has feet? unbeliev able ˘ ˘ Pyrrhee or pyrrhic foot baseball / / Spondee, or spondaic foot feverish / ˘ ˘ Dactyl, or dactylic foot in a flash ˘ ˘/ Anapest, or anapestic foot freedom / ˘ Trochee, or trochaic foot afraid ˘ / Iamb, or iambic foot Example Pattern Type of Foot

54. How many feet does your poem have? A perfect knight he was, that all could plainly see. six feet hexameter That time of year thou may’st in me behold five feet pentameter O saddle up my milk white steed four feet tetrameter In the midst of mourning three feet trimeter After autumn Comes the winter two feet dimeter And I Shall fly away one foot monometer Example Number of feet Term