Poetry Vocabulary

groups of lines - like a paragraph

• stanza

• rhyme

word that have matching ending sounds

• repetition

• rhyme

how the poem makes the reader feel

• mood

• stanza

a poem that tells a story

• narrative

• lyrical

a poem that is funny

• humorous

• narrative

a poem that has no rhyming pattern

• lyrical

• free verse

a poem with a character, problem and events

• free verse

• narrative

a group of words like a sentence in a poem

• line

• stanza

the person "talking" in the poem

• the speaker

• the character

a descriptive poem with a rhyming pattern

• lyrical

• free verse