Poetry Techniques

Repeating a word, phrase, or line for emphasis.

• rhyme

• repetition

• meter

• alliteration

Words that end in the same sound have this trait: The fairy named Mary was known for being merry - and hairy!

• repetition

• rhyme

• meter

• alliteration

Use of the word like or as to create a comparison between two things: “My love is like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June” (Robert Burns).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Giving an object human traits or characteristics, often to create imagery: The daisies danced in the breeze.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

What type of poetry does not follow any regular rhythm or rhyme scheme?

• Lyric

• Narrative

• Ballad

• Free Verse

A type of poetry that has no real rhyme or pattern

• Rhyme Pattern

• Meter

• Limerick

• Free Verse

Which type of poetry is defined as having 14 lines with 10 syllables each?

• haiku

• concrete

• sonnet

• villanelle

free verse

• the narrator of the poem; the person who is telling the story

• tells a story; sometimes rhymes and has meter/rhythm

• type of poem that doesn't rhyme or follow a pattern meter.

• the message or lesson the author is trying to get across

When one line of poetry runs into the next - when a line ends without end punctuation and the sentence continues onto the next line.

• stanza

• couplet

• enjambment

• rhyme scheme

Repetition of initial consonant sounds: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia