Poetry Vocabulary Review

a type of literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in meaningful ways

• Poetry

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Imagery

groups of words in poem

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• imagery

• lines

a group of lines in a poem, organized into a "unit of meaning"

• Rhythm

• Refrain

• Stanza

• Metaphor

a group of lines in a poem, repeated at regular intervals

• stanza

• refrain

• repetition

• Haiku

a beat created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in words

• rhyme

• rhythm

• alliteration

• denotation

the repetition of consonant and vowel sounds at the ends of words

• rhythm

• rhyme

• get on up

• it's bobsled time

the pattern of rhyme in a poem

• simile

• metaphor

• rhyme scheme

• repetition

the repetition of consonant sound in the beginning of words

• alliteration

• repetition

• rhyme

• imagery

the use of a sound, word, or phrase more than once

• refrain

• rhyme scheme

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

the use of words that imitate sounds, such as hiss, gurgle, or splat

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor