Poetry Terms

the main idea, topic, subject, or meaning of a story or poem

• poem

• poet

• imagery

• theme

a blank space, or skipped space, in between stanzas of a poem

• theme

• meter

• line break

• stanza

a short phrase or sentence in one row, or line of a stanza

• rhyme

• line

• stanza

• theme

much like a paragraph in a story. Usually a new idea or visual picture appears in each stanza

• stanza

• figurative language

• theme

• line

the use of words in an imaginative way. It typically involves the use of metaphors, similes, idioms, and onomatopoeias.

• stanza

• figurative language

• meter

• lyrical poem

a mental picture or feeling created by creative word usage in poetry

• line

• line break

• imagery

• stanza

a rhythmic pattern of syllables. (songs have this)

• meter

• stanza

• free verse

• imagery

comes from the meter of a poem or the number of syllables in each word. Songs have this or a beat that makes the song flow well.

• line break

• stanza

• meter

• Rhythm

the pattern of rhyming words in a poem

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• stanza

• line

a poem that has a specific rhythm, regular meter, and rhyme

• meter

• poem

• lyrical poem

• free verse poem