Poetry Vocabulary

The sound or feel created by the pattern of syllables; the beat.

• Rhyme Scheme
• Rhythm
• Tone
• Refrain

A group of lines in a poem.

• Paragraph
• Stanza
• Line
• Onomatopoeia

Words that have the same end sound.

• Rhyme
• Rhyme Scheme
• Imagery
• Onomatopoeia

Two words in the same line with the same starting sound.
Ex.: "She sells seashells down by the sea-shore"

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhyme
• Rhythm

A directly stated comparison. 

• Simile
• Irony
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia

The attempt to spell out a sound. Ex: BOOM! Meow. 

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor 
• Refrain
• Symbol

A single line in a poem.

• rhyme
• stanza
• repetition
• line

Pictures drawn in the reader's mind by the words of the poet. 

• Personification 
• Imagery
• Jargon
• Free Verse

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. 

• Imagery
• Simile
• Allusion
• Personification

A few lines repeated almost exactly at certain levels. 

• Rhyme 
• Repetition
• Refrain
• Rhyme Scheme