Poetry Lingo

A brief reference to a real of fictional person, event, place, or work of art

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Ballad

A single line of poetry

• Verse

• Symbol

• Metaphor

• Diction

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words

• Consonance

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Alliteration

The author's specific word choice

• Meter

• Tone

• Theme

• Stanza

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of texts

• alliteration

• Rhythm

• Assonance

• Simile

A story/narrative in poetic form

• Ballad

• Free verse

• Meter

• Metaphor

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels.

• Meter

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

The author's specific word choice

• Diction

• Enjambement

• Free verse

• Rhythm

When one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line

• Onomatopoeia

• Enjambment

• Rhythm

• Tone

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter

• Symbol

• Stanza

• Free Verse

• Metaphor