Poetry Terms

Repeating an initial consonant sound

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Diction

the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the sound to be heard

• alliteration

• diction

• euphony

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

arrange and repeat vowels, and smooth consonants (l,m,n,y,w) to create flowing and pleasing sound

• alliteration

• diction

• euphony

• assonance

poem's entire word choice: elevated, colloquial, unusual, conversational, specialized, vernacular

• alliteration

• diction

• euphony

• assonance

the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity

• consonance

• cacophony

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

An emotion or something inhuman, such as a mountain or love or a tree, is given human qualities.

• oxymoron

• synecdoche

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

acts like a paragraph in prose

• couplet

• sonnet

• villanelle

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Two rhyming lines

• couplet

• sonnet

• villanelle

• stanza

A 14 line poem, usually highly structured. The three main types are Shakesperean, Petrachan or Spenserian

• ballad

• elegy

• ode

• sonnet

Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme

• concrete poem

• free verse

• villanelle

• sonnet