Poetry Vocab

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

• Syllable
• rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

• Personification

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

• Fixed Verse
• Syllable

• Stanza

• Open Form

Simile

• a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to the similarities between two things that are seemingly dissimilar

• literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

• the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Usually written out with letters such as AABB or ABAB

• the attitude that a poem conveys; the mood created for a reader

a comparison between essentially unlike things without a comparative word such as "like" or "as"

• Metaphor
• Similie

• Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

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

• Stanza
• Concrete Poetry

• Metaphor

• Repetition

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

• Rhyme
• Personification

• Fixed Verse

• Open Form

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

• Open Form
• Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Syllable

literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

• Poetry
• Concrete Poetry

• Tone

• Stanza

giving an inanimate object or abstract idea living qualities

• Personification
• Stanza

• Rhyme Scheme

• Metaphor

repeating a word, phrase, line, or stanza multiple times in a poem

• Repetition
• Syllable

• Fixed Verse

• Open Form