Poetry

rows of text

• stanzas

• lines

• rhythm

groups of lines

• meter

• stanza

• rhythm

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• stanza

• meter

• rhythm

the beat of the poem

• meter

• rhythm

• stanza

describes words with the same ending

• rhyme

• rhyming scheme

• meter

• allusion

the repeating of words or lines in poetry

• repetition

• alliteration

• figurative language

the repetition of a consonant sound

• rhyme

• repetition

• alliteration

• allusion

language that does not always mean what it says

• literal language

• figurative language

a comparison that uses the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• rhyme

the giving of human qualities to nonhuman things

• allusion

• personification

• metaphor