Poetry Vocabulary

In ___________________poems, the first letter of each line spells out a word or saying.

• "Who Am I?"

• acrostic

• free verse

• cinquain

This type of poem is more picture than poem. ________________ poems are pictures in words.

• Shape

• Diamante

• Alphabet

• Syllable

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

• stanza

• haiku

• rhythm

• rhyme

patterns / similarities in final sounds of two or more lines

• rhyme

• rhythm

• refrain

• stanza

a piece of poetry

• stanza

• verse

• refrain

• epic

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

• alliteration

a stanza with two lines of verse

• free verse

• couplet

• epic

• refrain

a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

• meter

• lyric

• sonnet

• metaphor

a figure of speech comparing two things using “like” or “as”

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

• elegy

• stanza

• verse

• epic