Poetry Terms

A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Informational text

A group of lines in a poem

• Lines

• Stanza

• Figurative language

Groups of words in a poem

• poem

• simile

• Line

the narrator of a poem (character/person telling the poem; not always the author).

• speaker

• POV

• metaphor

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

• hyperbole

• meter

• rhyme

the pattern of rhyme in a poem

• personification

• rhyme scheme

when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

 rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas that tells a story and is meant to be sung. 

• ballad

• haiku

• limerick

a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

• rhyme

• refrain