Poetry Terms

A reference the author expects the reader to recognize

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Tone

• Stereotype

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Constant

• Couplet

• Foot

Exaggeration or overstatement

• Concrete Poetry

• Exposition

• Flashback

• Hyperbole

Writer's choice of words

• Apostrophe

• Diction

• Free Verse

• Mood

A foot of stressed and unstressed syllables

• Pentameter

• Trimeter

• Couplet

• Iamb

A writer's attitude toward his/her subject

• Rhythm

• Ode

• Tone

• Mood

A unit of a poem

• Stanza

• Paragraph

• Line-break

• Refrain

The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

• Run-on line

• Refrain

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

A four-line poem or stanza

• Four-square

• Iamb

• Requiem

• Quatrain

Onomatopoeia

• A word whose sound suggests the meaning

• A word whose spelling changes with context

• A word whose meaning changes with context

• A word used ironically