Poetry

3. Originating in Japan, a Haiku is a threeline poem which contains seventeen syllables.
7. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. It is comparable to a paragraph in an essay.
9. repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together.
12. scheme The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. You can identify this by using different letters of the alphabet for each rhyme.
13. A poem that tells a story.
14. Rhymes at the ends of lines.
17. A very short humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines.
19. The voice talking to us in a poem.
20. A long narrative poem that is written in heightened language and tells stories of the deeds of a heroic character who embodies that values of a society.

1. A five-line poem in which each line follows a rule.
2. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other certain sound patterns.
4. Using words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
5. Language that appeals to the seven senses.
6. Rhyme within lines.
8. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together.
10. Repeating a word, phrase, line, or stanza multiple times within the poem.
11. Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
15. An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing
16. A comparison between two unlike things,using a word such as like, or as
18. A song or songlike poem that tells a story.