Poetry Vocabulary

where the lines are broken into parts of the poem or stanzas to create an effective visual presentation

• line break
• stanza
• assonance
• imagery

group of lines or paragraphs of a poem

• stanza
• assonance
• imagery
• personification

the repetition of vowel sounds in words

• assonance
• imagery
• personification
• repetition

words that paint a picture in your mind

• imagery
• personification
• repetition
• rhythm

is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person; giving human qualities to objects or animals-- dead leaves dance in the wind, blind justice

• personification
• repetition
• rhythm
• onomatopoeia

the same words or phrases throughout the poem or stanza

• repetition
• rhythm
• onomatopoeia
• speaker

the sound and/or feel created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• rhythm
• onomatopoeia
• speaker
• hyperbole

a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound it describes

• onomatopoeia
• speaker
• hyperbole
• poem

the person (or animal or object) that is expressing their opinion in the poem

• speaker
• hyperbole
• poem
• lines

when a poet stretches the truth and characters or objects seem larger than life

• hyperbole
• poem
• lines
• meter