Figurative Language Vocabulary

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.

• Assonance

• Free Verse

• Consonance

• Stanza

A unified group of lines of poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.

• Stanza

• Verse

• Diction

• Metaphor

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text

• Alliteration

• Ballad

• Meter

• Assonance

The attitude the poem's narrator takes toward a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.

• Theme

• Tone

• Symbol

• Allusion

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things WITHOUT using the words like or as.

• Simile

• Enjambment

• Rhythm

• Metaphor

This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.

• Free Verse

• Enjambment

• Onomatopoeia

• Verse

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

• Tone

• Consonance

• Ballad

• Symbol

A story/narrative in poetic form

• Ballad

• Alliteration

• Meter

• Diction

The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.

• Verse

• Consonance

• Theme

• Symbol

Poetry that does not rhyme of have a measurable meter.

• Free Verse

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Theme