Poetry Vocabulary

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.

• Diction

• Consonance

An object or action that means something more that its literal meaning.

• symbol

• theme

The measured arangement of sounds/beats in a poem,m including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

• tone

• meter

A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.

• metaphor

• stanza

A story/narrative in poetric form.

• ballad

• allusion

The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ______ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.

• verse

• rhythm

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.

• simile

• assonance

The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.

• theme

• allusion

The author's specific word choice.

• onomatopoeia

• diction

The attitude the poem's narrator takes towardds a subject or character: serious, humerous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tonque-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.

• free verse

• tone