Poetry Terms

Comparison using like or as

• Simile

• Quatrain

• Poetry

• Jargon

A literary work written n verse format

• Tone

• Narrative Poem

• Imagery

• Poem

Nonsense words; specifically used for an occupation

• Simile

• Rhyme Scheme

• Jargon

• Alliteration

To put something into your own words; short and concise.

• Repetition

• Syntax

• Paraphrase

• Mood

Use of any element of language more than once

• Symbol

• Assonance

• Syntax

• Repetition

A poem that tells a story and has a plot.

• Narrative poem

• Couplet

• Syntax

• Dramatic Poetry

A writer's voice and attitude in a piece.

• Lyric Poem

• Symbol

• Tone

• Quatrain

A pair of rhyming lines in a poem, considered a unit

• Poetry

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Couplet

Regular pattern of rhyming words

• Jargon

• Tone

• Rhyme Scheme

• Paraphrase

Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in 2 or more stressed syllables.

• Assonance

• Simile

• Imagery

• Syntax