Poetry Vocabulary 1st

What type of figurative language is used?

She’s as bright as the sun.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

What are stanzas?

• The poem's speaker

• The poem's groups of lines

• The poem's central ideas

• The poem's best rhymes

What is a simile?

• A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse

• Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

• The use of an object to represent ideas or qualities

• A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as

What is a metaphor?

• A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

• The overall feeling or atmosphere of a text as established by imagery and word choice

• The position from which something or someone is observed

• The lesson of a talk, a piece of writing, or an exhibition.

"departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical"

• Literal

• Figurative

• Metaphor

• Point of View

The way a poem is laid out on the page
is called

• stanza
• paragraph
• line break
• form

The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

is called

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Using words that have the same

(or very similar)

ending sound

is called

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as ababbcc.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

a rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry

• couplet
• meter
• tone