Poetry Terms

The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, narrative, or poem.

• THEME

• PERSONIFICATION

• IMAGERY

• RHYME

a dividing and organizing technique which places a group of lines in a poem together, separated from other groups of lines by line spacing or indentation.

• STANZA

• INTERNAL RHYME

• HYPERBOLE

• METAPHOR

The act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again.

• REPETITION

• TONE

• THEME

• SIMILE

a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.

• REFRAIN/CHORUS

• SIMILE

• THEME

• PERSONIFICATION

A rhyme created by words within two or more lines of a verse.

• INTERNAL RHYME

• PUN

• HYPERBOLE

• DICTION

when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.

• END RHYME

• STANZA

• IMAGERY

• PUN

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing (using like or as) with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic.

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

• IMAGERY

• ALLUSION

Creates images in the mind of the reader uses figurative metaphorical language to improve the readers experience.

Often appeals to our senses: touch, sight, smell, taste, hear

• IMAGERY

• PERSONIFICATION

• RHYME

• PUN

Style of speaking or writing; an author's choice of words

• DICTION

• THEME

• TONE

• IMAGERY

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference to literature, music, art, pop culture, the news, etc.

• ALLUSION

• SIMILE

• PUN

• HYPERBOLE