Poetry Vocabulary

Can tell a story, describe a situation, or appeal to the senses.

• Stanza

• Poetry

• Rhythm

• Repetition

A group of lines within a poem.

• Sensory Imagery/and Sensory Language

• Rhyming Words

• Poetry

• Stanza

Words with the same ending sound at the end of lines or stanzas.

• Poetry

• Repetition

• Rhyming Words

A pattern of stressed syllables that create a beat.

• Rhythm

• Poetry

• Stanza

• Sensory Imagery/and Sensory Language

The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.

• Rhythm

• Rhyming Words

• Poetry

• Rhythm Scheme

Lines or words that are repeated to stress importance.

• Rhythm

• Repetition

• Poetry

• Rhyming words