The Vocabulary of Poetry Part 2

ASSIGNED: January 12, 2018 DUE: January 16, 2018

Diction (n.)

 Another way of talking about word choice

 Affects a poem's meaning and the way it sounds
 Diction can be formal (O, Come, All Ye Faithful), informal (Come here, faithful people), or
even slangy (Yo, get on over here, church folks!) These are all the same IDEA in different
DICTION.
Rhyme (n.)

 The repetition of the sounds at the end of words.

 Used to affect the mood of a poem (dark, playful, mysterious), to emphasize sounds that
suggest feelings, or create rhythms that help convey sensory feelings, such as a sense of
motion or the feeling of singing.
Rhyme scheme (n.)

 The pattern of end rhymes.

 Each set of end rhymes is given a letter, and the pattern those letters make is a rhyme
scheme.
 Ex. Mary had a little lamb.
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
 The rhyme scheme for the above poem is A-B-C-B, since lines 2 and 4 both rhyme.
Couplet (n.)

 The last two lines of a poem that both rhyme with each other and usually explain the
theme.
Meter (n.)

 A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Poetic form (n.)

 The arrangement of words and lines on a page.

 Poetic forms include haiku, sonnets, ballads, limericks, odes, and many, many others.
Sonnet (n.)

 A poetic form with specific requirements.

 A sonnet has fourteen lines. It has three parts (stanzas) that have four lines each and a
fourth part that has two lines that rhyme.
 A sonnet usually follows a strict rhyme scheme.
 A sonnet usually follows a strict meter, or pattern of beats per line.
Extended metaphor (n.)

 Compares two unlike things at length and in a number of ways, sometimes throughout an
entire work.