Poetry Vocabulary Part 1

A piece of writing that conveys a message through language, emphasizing language's musical qualities.

• iamb

• speaker

• stanza

• poem

The voice behind the poem is called the

• poem

• speaker

• line

• stanza

A unit in poetry that consists of any words arranged in a row.

• poem

• speaker

• line

• stanza

A grouping of lines that form a unit in a poem.

• Poem

• Speaker

• Line

• Stanza

A specific line or lines that are repeated in a poem.

• Refrain

• Tercet

• Couplet

• Quatrain

a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming or connected by rhyme

• quatrain

• couplet

• cinquain

• tercet

A poem or stanza composed of five lines.

• Tercet

• Cinquain

• Couplet

• Quatrain

Two successive lines of poetry, often rhymed.

• Tercet

• Cinquain

• Couplet

• Quatrain

A four-line stanza or grouping of four lines of verse.

• tercet

• cinquain

• couplet

• quatrain

A word or phrase that replaces the name of an object or concept for another to which it is related.

• Anaphora

• Metonymy

• Enjambment

• Iamb