{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/la-poetry-forms",
 "id": "la-poetry-forms",
 "title": "Poetry Forms and Terms",
 "category": "language-arts",
 "subject": "English",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Kinds of poems and the words used to describe how poems are built.",
 "tags": [
  "poetry",
  "forms"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Definition",
 "cards": [
  [
   "haiku",
   "A Japanese-style poem in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables"
  ],
  [
   "tanka",
   "A Japanese poem of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables"
  ],
  [
   "limerick",
   "A funny five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme"
  ],
  [
   "sonnet",
   "A 14-line poem, often in iambic pentameter"
  ],
  [
   "Shakespearean sonnet",
   "A sonnet with three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG"
  ],
  [
   "Petrarchan sonnet",
   "A sonnet with an octave and a sestet"
  ],
  [
   "couplet",
   "Two lines in a row that rhyme"
  ],
  [
   "tercet",
   "A stanza of three lines"
  ],
  [
   "quatrain",
   "A stanza of four lines"
  ],
  [
   "cinquain",
   "A five-line poem with a set pattern of words or syllables"
  ],
  [
   "diamante",
   "A diamond-shaped seven-line poem"
  ],
  [
   "acrostic",
   "A poem where the first letters of lines spell a word"
  ],
  [
   "free verse",
   "A poem without regular rhyme or meter"
  ],
  [
   "blank verse",
   "Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter"
  ],
  [
   "ballad",
   "A poem or song that tells a story"
  ],
  [
   "epic",
   "A long poem about a hero's deeds"
  ],
  [
   "ode",
   "A poem praising a person or thing"
  ],
  [
   "elegy",
   "A poem of mourning"
  ],
  [
   "lyric poem",
   "A short poem expressing feelings"
  ],
  [
   "narrative poem",
   "A poem that tells a story"
  ],
  [
   "concrete poem",
   "A poem shaped like its subject"
  ],
  [
   "shape poem",
   "Another name for a concrete poem"
  ],
  [
   "villanelle",
   "A 19-line poem with two repeating refrains"
  ],
  [
   "sestina",
   "A 39-line poem with six repeated end words"
  ],
  [
   "clerihew",
   "A funny four-line poem about a person"
  ],
  [
   "epigram",
   "A short, witty saying in verse"
  ],
  [
   "nursery rhyme",
   "A short traditional rhyme for children"
  ],
  [
   "stanza",
   "A group of lines in a poem"
  ],
  [
   "verse",
   "One line of a poem, or a stanza"
  ],
  [
   "line break",
   "Where a line of a poem ends"
  ],
  [
   "rhyme",
   "Matching end sounds in words"
  ],
  [
   "rhyme scheme",
   "The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines"
  ],
  [
   "end rhyme",
   "Rhyme at the ends of lines"
  ],
  [
   "internal rhyme",
   "Rhyme within a line"
  ],
  [
   "slant rhyme",
   "Words that almost rhyme"
  ],
  [
   "rhythm",
   "The beat of the words"
  ],
  [
   "meter",
   "The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables"
  ],
  [
   "foot",
   "A unit of meter"
  ],
  [
   "iamb",
   "A foot with an unstressed then a stressed syllable"
  ],
  [
   "trochee",
   "A foot with a stressed then an unstressed syllable"
  ],
  [
   "anapest",
   "A foot with two unstressed then one stressed syllable"
  ],
  [
   "dactyl",
   "A foot with one stressed then two unstressed syllables"
  ],
  [
   "pentameter",
   "A line with five feet"
  ],
  [
   "tetrameter",
   "A line with four feet"
  ],
  [
   "refrain",
   "A line or phrase repeated in a poem or song"
  ],
  [
   "speaker",
   "The voice that talks in a poem"
  ],
  [
   "enjambment",
   "A sentence running over a line break"
  ],
  [
   "caesura",
   "A pause inside a line"
  ],
  [
   "alliteration",
   "Repeating beginning sounds"
  ],
  [
   "onomatopoeia",
   "Words that sound like what they name"
  ],
  [
   "imagery",
   "Words that create pictures in the mind"
  ],
  [
   "stanza break",
   "A blank line between stanzas"
  ],
  [
   "volta",
   "The turn in thought in a sonnet"
  ],
  [
   "rhyme couplet",
   "A pair of rhyming lines"
  ],
  [
   "envelope rhyme",
   "ABBA rhyme pattern"
  ],
  [
   "alexandrine",
   "A line of six iambic feet"
  ],
  [
   "sprung rhythm",
   "Rhythm based on counting stressed syllables only"
  ],
  [
   "slam poetry",
   "A poem performed aloud in a competition style"
  ],
  [
   "spoken word",
   "Poetry written to be performed"
  ],
  [
   "found poem",
   "A poem made from words found elsewhere"
  ],
  [
   "list poem",
   "A poem made as a list"
  ],
  [
   "pantoum",
   "A poem with repeating lines in a set pattern"
  ],
  [
   "ghazal",
   "A poem of couplets with a repeated word at the end of the second line"
  ]
 ]
}