Poetry Terms

A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space is a (this is like the paragraph of poetry)...

• stanza
• refrain
• ballad
• chorus

Two lines of poetry that rhyme:

• Limerick

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Haiku

Free verse poetry does not have...

• stanzas

• plot or conflict

• rhyme or rhythm

• serious topic

The author’s attitude about their topic, characters or audience.

• Mood

• Setting

• Tone

• Diction

Diction is the literary term that means

• The connections we have with words

• An author's choice of words

• The definition of words

• The common way of speaking with friends

This word describes a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound in a poem - the "beat."

• Line

• Stanza

• Song

• Rhythm

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes

• compares two unlike things using the words like or as

• compares two similar things 

• tells what a person is doing

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"

• A comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

• A type of poem in which two things are compared

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration