Poetry Terms

Stanza

• written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

• a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains

• the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• a poem that regrets the loss or death of something or someone

Verse

• a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

• A comparison not using like or as

• the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

• a metric line of poetry named according to the kind and number of feet composing it

Imagery

• visually descriptive figurative language, especially in a literary work

• the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

• the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line

• short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author

End Rhyme

• short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author

• the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines of poetry rhyme with each other

Prose

• the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

• written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

• the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line

• the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

Internal Rhyme

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

• the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line

• a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

Assonance

• the repetition of vowel sounds in multiple words in a line

• the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line

• the repetition of a consonant sound in any part of multiple words in a line

• a poem that regrets the loss or death of something or someone

Consonance

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author

• the repetition of a consonant sound in any part of multiple words in a line

• a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture

Alliteration

• the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line

• the rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Meter

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author

• a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract

• the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry