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Poetry Term

Definition/Explanation

Example

Free Verse

“You Took The Last Bus Home” By Brian Bilston

you took the last bus home

don’t know how

you got it through the door

you’re always doing amazing stuff

like that time you caught a train

Blank Verse

Excerpt from Burial by Robert Frost

'There, you have said it all and you feel better. (11 syllables)

You won't go now. You're crying. Close the door. (10 syllables)

Poetry that rhymes

Stanza

The Fist

ShapeBy Derek Wolcott

The fist clenched round my heart

loosens a little, and I gasp

brightness; but it tightens

again. When have I ever not loved

the pain of love? But this has moved

past love to mania. This has the strong

clench of the madman, this is

gripping the ledge of unreason, before

plunging howling into the abyss.

Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.

Imagery

Direct comparison between two things using “like” or “as”

Metaphor/extended metaphor

Alliteration

Peter Piper Pizza is perfect for parties.

Personification

Symbolism

Hyperbole

Irony

Demons from Imagine Dragons

And the ones we hail

Are the worst of all

Onomatopoeia

Allusion

Oxymoron

You are my beginning and my end.

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