Poetry Vocabulary

having the power to do something in a new or imaginative way

• creative

• brittle

• descriptive

• outstretched

very easily broken

• brittle

• descriptive

• outstretched

• metaphor

providing a picture in words

• descriptive

• outstretched

• metaphor

• simile

stretched out or extended

• outstretched

• metaphor

• simile

• rhyme

a comparison made WITHOUT like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• rhyme

• meter

a comparison made using like or as

• simile

• rhyme

• meter

• creative

words with the same middle and ending

• rhyme

• meter

• creative

• brittle

pattern of syllables in a line of poetry

• meter

• creative

• brittle

• descriptive