Poetry Vocabulary

Groups of lines; in a story or essay, this would be called a paragraph

• verse

• stanza

• parapraph

• mood

ONE line in a poem; in a story or essay, this would be called a sentence

• verse

• sentence

• stanza

• tone

Pattern of rhymes in a poem.

EX: aabb ccdd eeff gg

• end rhyme

• repetition

• rhyme scheme

• verse

An author’s attitude towards a subject—revealed through word choice and details.

• tone

• mood

• theme

• repetition

A story’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes; how it makes the reader feel

• tone

• stanza

• theme

• mood

Purposeful repeating of a word, phrase, or line

• theme

• rhyme scheme

• repetition

• mood

Rhymes that occur at the end of lines.

• rhyme scheme

• theme

• end rhymes

• repetition

Rhyming of words within a line.

Ex: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

• mood

• repetition

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

The message, point, or lesson about life that the author wishes to reveal about what her topic.

• theme

• mood

• tone

• stanza

What type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration?

• imagery

• allusion

• hyperbole

• metaphor