Unit 2: Poetry - Vocabulary

Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be ______.

• a single word

• a part of a sentence

• a whole sentence

• all of the above

repetition of similar or identical sounds at the ends of words near each other

• rhythm

• meter

• rhyme

• stanza

a group of lines

• rhyme

• stanza

• meter

• rhythm

pattern formed by the end rhymes (ex: aabb, abab, abba, etc.)

• rhyme

• rythm

• meter

• rhyme scheme

language that uses words beyond their literal meanings to create complex or powerful effects

• metaphor

• symbolism

• figurative language

• tone

comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

intentional exaggeration for emphasis or to create comic effect

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• cliche

• hyperbole

comparison between two unlike things that states one "is" the other

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

pairing of contradictory words to convey a new, complex meaning

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

giving non-human things/ideas human characteristics

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

• onomatopoeia