Poettry Vocabulary

Words arranged in a rhythm that expresses ideas and emotions.

• Poetry

• stanza

• FREE VERSE

• rhyme

The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.

• rhyme

• poetry

• figurative language

• consonance

The rhyming of words at the two or more lines.

• assonance

• consonance

• end rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Occurs in poems that utilize a type of rhyming called end rhyme.

• figurative language

• rhyme scheme

• poetry

• alliteration

Language that uses figures of speech such as...

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• poetry

• figurative language

The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• hyperbole

The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.

• consonance

• aliteration

• poetry

• assonance

The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry.

• consonance

• assonance

• hyperbole

• figurative laanguage

Onomatopoeia uses words that sound like the objects of actions which they are describing

• poetry

• Onomatopoeia

• figurative langauge

• alliteration

An exaggeration of the truth that is meant to emphasize a point or be funny.

• poetry

• rhyme

• hyperbole

• rhyme scheme