Poetry Review

A short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions and feelings

• Lyric

• Sonnet

• Narrative

• Tone

A form of poetry that is used to tell a story

• Narrative

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Tone

A fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme

• Sonnet

• Stanzas

• Personification

• Tone

A unit of poetry composed of lines that relate to a similar thought or topic—like a paragraph in prose or a verse in a song

• Stanzas

• Narrative

• Connotation

• Metaphor

The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song

• Rhyme Scheme

• Tone

• Mood

• Simile

Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry, instead of at the ends of lines

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

• Exact Rhyme

Two words that rhyme perfectly or sound exactly alike

• Exact Rhyme

• Mood

• Tone

• Internal Rhyme

The rhyming of final syllables in two or more lines of poetry

• End Rhyme

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Slant Rhyme

A rhyming scheme with words that sound similar but not exactly the same

• Slant Rhyme

• Exact Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

A literary device that conveys the author's attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem

• Tone

• Mood

• Simile

• Metaphor