Poetry Academic Vocabulary

When a poet uses words that appeal to the senses

• prose

• imagery

• assonance

• rhythm

Words that have the same beginning sounds within a line of a poem

• speaker

• figurative language

• alliteration

• assonance

the narrator of a poem

• speaker

• prose

• rhyming words

• rhythm

written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

• simile

• figurative language

• poetry

• prose

Examples of sound devices

• stanzas and lines

• rhyme, rhythm, meter

• prose and poetry

• fiction and fantasy

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

• rhyme

• meter

• rhythm

• stanza

An example of figurative language is_____

• metaphor

• speaker

• stanzas

• mood

Shape of a poem

• stanzas

• lines

• structure

• form

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

• poetry

• repetition

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

repeated use of words, sounds, or ideas for effect and emphasis

• alliteration

• assonance

• repetition

• rhyme scheme