Poetry Vocab. Terms

a truth, message, or lesson about life

• theme

• moral

• plot

• setting

the number and style of accented syllables in a line

• rhyme

• meter

• stanza

• verse

the pattern of rhyming in a poem

• rhyme scheme

• meter

• stanza

• verse

a group of lines in a poem

• stanza

• verse

• couplet

• lyric

words that have the same ending sound

• rhyme

• meter

• verse

• stanza

a collection of words written to inspire ideas, imagination, or emotions

• novel

• essay

• poem

• short story

the author of a poem

• poet

• novelist

• playwright

• essayist

rhyming that occurs within a line

• internal rhyme

• external rhyme

• slant rhyme

• end rhyme

rhyming that occurs at the end of lines

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• eye rhyme

the narrator of a poem

• speaker

• author

• reader

• editor