Poetry Vocab

Definition for Rhyme

• Sound words

• words that end in the same sound

• the pattern of rhymes

Definition for Tone

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

• the musical quality of a poem

• the attitude or mood the author creates

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Definition for Theme

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• the pattern of rhymes

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Definition for Meter

• the attitude or mood the author creates

• sound words

• the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated

Definition for Stanza

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• the pattern of rhymes

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Definition for Rhyme Scheme

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• the attitude or mood the author creates

• the pattern of rhymes

Definition for rhythm

• the musical quality of a poem

• words that end in the same sound, end rhymes

What is the definition of audience?

• the readers that the text is intended for

• a group of people listening at a concert

• anyone who is reading the text

• the reason the text is written

What is the definition of purpose?

• the meaning of life

• a Justin Bieber album

• the reason the text is written (to entertain, inform, or persuade)

• the reader the text is intended for

Diction is the literary term that means

• The connections we have with words

• An author's choice of words

• The definition of words

• The common way of speaking with friends