Poetry Literary Terms

the words and lines create a shape

• concrete poem
• free verse poem
• narrative poem
• haiku poem

a poem that does not have any rhyme 

• narrative
• concrete
• haiku
• free verse

poetry that tells a story

• free verse
• narrative
• concrete
• lyric

a poem that expresses a poet's thoughts and feelings about a single image, emotion, or idea

• concrete
• narrative
• free verse
• lyric

the voice that speaks to the reader

• narrator
• character
• speaker
• author

the genre of literature that is made up of lines and stanzas

• prose
• poetry
• drama

a traditional form of Japanese poetry about nature; has 3 lines and 17 syllables (5-7-5)

• haiku
• free verse
• concrete
• lyric

elements that help you imagine how something tastes, looks, sounds, feels, or smells

• figurative language
• mood
• sensory details
• paraphrasing

writing or speech not to be taken literally

• sensory details
• imagery
• paraphrasing
• figurative language

restating something in your own words

• quotes
• writing
• repetition 
• paraphrasing