Poetry Terms #2

A message the author shares

• Theme

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Assonance

A voice that talks to the reader

• Narrator

• Speaker

• Poet

• Tone

Used to make music, emphasize ideas, or remind the reader of what they are describing

• Sound Devices

• Rhyme

• Mood

• Voice

Rhyme

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• Repetition of sounds at the end of lines

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• Using the same word twice

Line length that helps give poetry shape

• Form

• Stanza

• Line break

• Verse

Can be a sentence, phrase, or single word

• Line

• Line break

• Form

• Limerick

Places that lines of poetry end

• Line break

• Stanza

• Verse

• Form

Visualize

• Forming a mental picture of what is being described

• Poems that are shaped like their subjects

• Poems that are accompanied by pictures

• Type of poem that describes a place

A humorous poem consisting of 5 lines with an aabba rhyme scheme

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Blank Verse

• Free Verse

Poetic Form with no rules for rhyming, structure or length

• Free Verse

• Blank Verse

• Haiku

• Limerick