Poetry Vocabulary

Front

What are poems that express personal emotions or feelings called?

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Lyrical poems

Front

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

Back

Rhyme

Front

What do we call each single line of a poem?

Back

Line

Front

What is the term for words that sound the same at the end, like Cat/Bat/Rat/Mat?

Back

Rhyme

Front

What do we call words that imitate sounds, like Bang! Boom! Crash!?

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Onomatopoeia

Front

What is a group of lines in a poem called?

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Stanza

Front

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

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Alliteration

Front

What is a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'?

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Metaphor

Front

What type of poem tells a story?

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Narrative poem

Front

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

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Free verse poem