Poetry Vocabulary

Types of Poetry

• Speaker's way of looking at things

• The pace of a poem established by stress and unstressed syllables

• narrative, lyrical, free-verse, blank-verse

• specific arrangement of a poem

lines

• can be complete or incomplete sentences

• author of a poem

• message about life or human nature

• specific arrangement of a poem

stanzas

• devices used that are the musical element in poetry

• groups of lines, like a poem paragraph

• give a brief statement of main points of a poem

• repetition of the vowel sounds in words, phrases and sentences

structure or form

• imaginary voice that narrates the poem

• literal definition of a word

• speaker's attitude toward his/her/their subject

• specific arrangement of a poem

poet

• author of a poem

• the repetition of sounds in a words

• narrative, lyrical, free-verse, blank-verse

• repetition of consonant sounds within words, phrases and sentences

speaker

• positive or negative feelings associated with a word

• imaginary voice that narrates the poem

• when the last words of a poem rhyme

• repetition of the initial sound of words (not letters, sounds!)

point of view

• the pace of a poem established by stress and unstressed syllables

• literal dictionary definition of a word

• speaker's way of looking at things; first, second or third

• author of a poem

theme

• when the last words of a poem line rhyme

• groups of lines, like a poem paragraph

• give a brief statement of main points

• message about life or human nature

tone

• speaker's attitude toward his/her/their subject

• words that imitates the sounds it makes

• repetition of sounds in a word

• narrative, lyrical, free-verse, blank-verse

connotation

• literal dictionary definition of a word

• positive or negative feelings associated with a word

• author of a poem

• devices used that are the musical element in poetry