Poetry Terms

tells the story

like a play; poem with parts

highly musical verse

person who tells a story

poem that makes a picture in your mind

writter's attitude towards a subject

word the author chooses

language not supposed to be taken literally

the way the poem is set up

group of lines

rhythmical pattern in a poem

poetry written without meter or rhyme

regular pattern or rhyme

BOOM! KAPOW!

repetition of initials sound

The recurrence of similar sounds, esp. consonants

repetition of the sound of a vowel

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

A rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line of poetry with that of another line

feeling created in the piece of writing

central message

brief reference to a person, event, place, phrase, or piece of writing

songlike poem that tells a story

Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

a pair of rhyming lines

figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to similarities about two things

figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.

metaphor being described throughout a piece of writing

• poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture
• 5:7:5

short sometimes bawdy, humorous poems of consisting of fiveAnapaestic lines

when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do

uthor uses words and details that appeal to a reader's senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, emotion)

lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. First 12 lines propose a problem and the last one proposes the soltution

listing poem

deliberate exaggeration

put into your own words

anything that stands for something else

a statement with two parts which seem contradictory; examples: sad joy, a wise fool, the sound of silence

stanza or poem of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme