ELA Poetry Vocab

Rhytmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.

A musical quality produced by repetitions of certain sounds (stressed and unstressed syllables)

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true.

Language that appeals to the five senses.

The author's feelings about his or her subject.

The feeling created in the reader by a work.

The pattern of end rhymes in a poem

A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem.

The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together.

The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem.