Poetry Vocabulary

Front

What are poems that express personal emotions or feelings called?

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Lyrical poems

Front

What are poems that tell a story called?

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Narrative poems

Front

What is the term for words that imitate sounds, like 'Bang!' or 'Crash!'?

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Onomatopoeia

Front

What do we call words that have the same ending sounds?

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Rhyme

Front

What is the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry?

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Rhythm

Front

What is a poem that does not have a specific rhyme scheme or meter called?

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Free verse poem

Front

What is a type of poem that uses humor to entertain?

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Humorous poem

Front

What is a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

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Simile

Front

What is giving human qualities to non-human things called?

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Personification

Front

What is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words?

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Alliteration