Poetry vocabulary

Front

The repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more words

Back

alliteration

Front

The use of language to create vivid pictures in the reader’s mind

Back

imagery

Front

A comparison using the words “like” or “as”

Back

simile

Front

A group of lines in poetry arranged like a paragraph

Back

stanza

Front

Two or more words or phrases that end with the same sounds

Back

rhyme

Front

An expression that does not literally mean exactly what it says

Back

idiom

Front

giving a nonhuman object human like qualities

Back

personification

Front

a pattern of weak and strong sounds throughout a poem “the beat”

Back

rhythm

Front

a pattern of rhyming words in a poem

Back

rhyme scheme

Front

The use of words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal meaning.

Back

figurative language