Poetry Terms

Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader

• Imagery

• Details

• Metaphor

• Mood

What is a simile?

• A comparison between any to similar things

• Any sentence using like or as

• A comparison between two unlike things using like or as

• A comparison between two unlike things

The attitude that the AUTHOR has towards a subject is

• Mood

• Tone

• Opinion

• Theme

A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem

• line

• paragraph

• poem

• stanza

"as light as a feather"

What figurative language type would this be?

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

"The snow is a white blanket"

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

A reference to a famous person, place, or event

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Tone

• Assonance

The most simple/central unit of a poem

• Line

• Stanza

• Paragraph

• Group

The voice that talks to the reader similar to the narrator in fiction

• Narrator

• Poet

• Speaker

• Author

A writer's or speaker´s good choice of words

• Diction

• Details

• Theme

• Metaphor