Unit 3: Lyric Poetry 1. Lyric Poetry: A. Shows The

Unit 3: Lyric Poetry 1. Lyric poetry: a. shows the feelings and thoughts of the speaker (same as narrator, but in poems) b. is musical and resembles a song (all songs and raps are lyric poetry) c. Types include Ballads, Limericks, Haiku, Sonnets, Free Verse, etc. 2. Ballad: is like a song, tells a story, and has a refrain 3. Limerick: is humorous, has 5 lines, rhyme scheme is AABBA 4. Haiku: has 3 lines, has 17 syllables (5-7-5), is always about nature, and does not have to rhyme 5. Sonnet: has 14 lines and expresses thoughts, feelings, and emotions 6. Free Verse: has no rules, does not have to rhyme, is like talking 7. Blank Verse: unrhymed, usually with five beats for each line 8. dramatic poetry: a poem in which a character gives a soliloquy (speech) with lots of feeling or emotion 9. figurative language: figures of speech a. things that are written or said, but are not meant to be taken literally b. using figures of speech makes our writing sound better 10. simile: comparing two unlike objects using “like” or “as.” Ex: “Run like the wind” 11. metaphor : comparing two unlike objects without using “like” or “as” or simply saying that one is the other. Ex: “He is a grumpy bear when the alarm clock goes off.” 12. extended metaphor: metaphor that is talked about in more than one way, or that compares two objects in more than one way. It can be several lines or a paragraph in length. 13. allusion: when writing says something about something from another writing, from history, or from real life. Ex: “My brother is as strong as Hercules.” 14. personification: talking about an object or animal as if it were human or giving human characteristics to something non-human. Ex: “The wind whistled through the trees.” 15. hyperbole: great exaggeration used to show meaning. Ex: “She was angry enough to spit tacks.” 16. imagery: using words and language that appeal to the senses, describing how something looks, sounds, tastes, feels, or smells 17. rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in writing, it gives poetry a musical quality 18. meter: the pattern of stresses, or beats, in poetry 19. alliteration: repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Ex: “Big bricklayers built Barney’s bungalow.”

20. assonance: repeating similar vowel sounds in words that are close together. Ex: “home alone” 21. onomatopoeia: using words that imitate sound Ex: buzz, crash, hiss, hum, splat