poetry vocabulary

repetition of end sounds

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

appearance of words, capital letters,lines and stanzas

• rhyme scheme

• graphical elements

• repetition

• sound devices

way a poem's lines, and stanzas are set up on the page.

• poetic form

• limerick

• sonnet

• ode

the attitude of the narrator

• meter

• rhyme

• metaphor

• tone

comparison that uses like or as

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• couplet

object or animal that is given human qualities

• haiku

• elegy

• personification

• mood

comparison between two things uses the word is

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• meter

• poetic form

exaggerated statements

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• limerick

• metaphor

repetition of consonant words at the beginning of words

• rhyme

• meter

• alliteration

• verse