Poetry Terms

Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• Plot Elements
• Figurative Language
• Sensory Language

An extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole
• Understatement
• Overstatement
• Figurative Language

The speaker in the poem

• Persona/Narrator
• Poet
• Voice
• Speaker

A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse

• Lines
• Chorus
• Stanza
• Refrain

Comparing two or more unlike things using like or as

• Metaphor
• Figurative Language
• Sensory Language
• Simile

Dictionary definition of the word

• Connotation
• Dictionary
• Denotation
• Feelings, thoughts 

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Comparing two or more things not using like or as; a direct comparison

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Imagery

Overtones, suggestions, implications, and additional meanings of the word

• Denotation
• Feelings, emotions, thoughts
• Connotation
• Synonyms

Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste)

• Figurative Language
• Imagery
• Sensory Language
• Poetry

The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables that create a rhythm or flow to the poem

• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Rhyme Scheme
• Foot