Poetry

A poem in which the meaning is conveyed by the placement or design of the words on the page

• Free Verse

• Concrete Poem

• Personification

• Simile

A form of poetry that uses a template or formula that restricts the poem's meter, stanza, syllables, and/or rhyme scheme

• Fixed Verse

• Open Form

• Free Verse

• Concrete

Poetic form free from regularity and consistency in elements such as line length, rhyme, and metrical form

• Fixed Verse

• Metaphor

• Open Form

• Rhyme

Giving an inanimate object or abstract idea living qualities

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Repeating a word, phrase, line, or stanza multiple times within a poem

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Personification

Having the same sound at the end of two or more words

• Meter

• Rhyme

• Pattern

• Rhyme Scheme

The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, often written out with letters (ABAB)

• Personification

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Rhyme Scheme

A figure of speech in which two things are compared using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Comparison

• Syllable

Unit of a poem often repeated in the same form throughout a poem; a unit of poetic lines

• Syllable

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Metaphor

A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or part of the word

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Syllable

• Rhyme Scheme