Poetry Terms

Literature written in a style pattern that resembles everyday language; sentences, paragraphs, etc.

• Poet

• Prose

• Mood

• Tone

genre; creative text written in verse, meter; uses creative, figurative and sensory language

• Syllable

• Symbol

• Prose

• Poetry

the author/ writer of text not always the speaker of the poem

• Author

• Syllable

• Poet

• Tone

how the voice sounds based on the author's attitude/ feeling toward the subject and audience of the poem; can affect the mood

• Tone

• Meter

• Denotation

• symbol

the feelings created in the reader by the poem; can be affected by the tone

• Symbol

• Line

• Mood

• Poem

ideas are meanings beyond the literal meaning of the word

• denotation

• foot

• connotation

• Prose

dictionary meaning of the word

• poem

• denotation

• connotation

• stanza

a group of lines in a poem or song (a paragraph)

• line

• line break

• syllable

• stanza

the use of sounds, words, or phrases or whole lines more than once in a poem; used to emphasize

• repetition

• refrain

• consonance

• assonance

the repetition of sounds, particularly at the beginning of the words in a row

• form

• alliteration

• assonance

• rhythm