Poetry Vocabulary

What is imagery?

• Descriptive language that creates a mental picture

• The hidden symbolism in a text

• The theme or message of a poem or story

• The most exciting part of a story

What is figurative language?

• using language to give an exact definition

• determining the author's point of view

• using stanzas and quatrains to divide a poem

• using a descriptive word/phrase beyond its literal meaning

internal rhyme

• Two words that rhyme anywhere inside a poem

• A word inside a line that rhyming with another word on the same line

• Words that remind you of the sound they make, "Whoosh!"

• Words that tell you how the author feels about the subject

What is meter?

• The number of syllables in a verse

• The amount that a poem costs per word

• Language that goes beyond the literal meaning

• The number of letters in each word

What is MOOD as it relates to poetry?

• The colors used to describe an object in a poem

• How the character feels in a story

• The main point of a story or a poem

• The atmosphere or emotion created by the poet

What is a stanza?

• The stand that holds up a poem that someone is reading

• The first two words that rhyme in a poem

• A group of letters that form words in a poem

• A group of lines that form a unit in a poem

What is a quatrain?

• A two-line unit in a poem

• The last car in a line of vehicles

• A four-line unit in a poem

• A structure all poems use

What is a couplet

• A two-line unit in a poem that usually rhymes

• A four-line unit in a poem

• Two people who fall in love in a poem

• Two poems that are alike

What is a refrain?

• A type of photo taken by a digital camera

• A subject that a person may focus on

• The first two lines in a poem that rhyme

• A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem

What is poetic structure?

• The way a poem makes you feel

• How famous the poem is

• The organization of lines and patterns of sounds

• The mood of the poem