Poetry Vocabulary 2020

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

• end rhyme

• speaker

• repetition

• rhyme scheme

Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity

• consonance

• rhyme

• simile

• alliteration

The way a poem is organized into lines and stanzas

• stanza

• sound devices

• poetic structure

• repetition

A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.

• tone

• speaker

• mood

• subject

a comparison without using like or as

• extended metaphor

• allusion

• metaphor

• simile

The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• tone

• mood

• allusion

• line

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• symbol

• allusion

• simile

• imagery

Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

• imagery

• figurative language

• speaker

• mood

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

• symbolism

• assonance

• allusion

• consonance

Language that appeals to the senses

• symbolism

• assonance

• simile

• imagery