9th Poetry Terms

measured rhythm of a poem

• meter

• foot

• rhythm

• rhyme

the  pattern of rhyme at the end of each line

human qualities given to inanimate objects

• simile

• personification

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

words that sound like what they mean

lines that are repeated at intervals

• enjambment

• stanza

• refrain

• alliteration

a pattern in a line consisting of one accented syllable and one unaccented syllable

• foot

• rhyme

• simile

• metaphor

correspondence of  sounds

• scansion

• meter

• rhythm

• rhyme

regular recurrence of sound

• rhyme

• rhythm

• scansion

• rhyme scheme

marking the meter  

• assonance

• foot

• rhythm

• scansion

soft strong

• iamb

• trochee

• dactyl

• anapest