Poetry

Used in poetry to convey feeling and emotion and set the mood for the work.

• refrain

• tone

• assonance

• imagery

a type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings or tells a story in a specific form

• rhythm

• irony

• rhymes

• poetry

a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer

• simile

• symbolism

• repetition

• oxymoron

the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Can be created by using meter, rhymes, alliteration, and refrain

• rhythm

• rhymes

• end rhyme

• form

consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• allusion

a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• refrain

the appearance of the words on the page

• stanza

• meter

• line

• form

a sound, word, phrase, or line repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza or verse, such as a chorus or song.

• simile

• stanza

• hyperbole

• refrain

comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• idiiom

• allusion

words that imitate the sound that they are naming

• assonance

• imagery

• speaker

• onomatopoeia