A truth, lesson or message about life

The beat, sound, and feel of a poem

Describes words that have the same ending sounds

A group of lines in a poem

All poems must rhyme

The writer's attitude or expression in a poem toward the subject at hand.

Language layered with meaning by word images and figures of speech; it departs from literal meaning.

The attribution of human characteristics to something nonhuman such as an animal, inanimate object, or abstract notion.

Capital letters, line length, and word position; the "shape" of a poem

Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses; it is visually descriptive.

The repeated use of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.

The use of details in writing that an author uses to help the reader experience the five senses.

The use of words that imitate sound (ex. zip, buzz, tick-tock)

A comparison between two unlike items using a specific comparison word such as like or as.

A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often, forms of the "to be" verb are used such as is or was to help make the comparison.

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

the pattern that the end-rhyming words follow

Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

the pattern that the end-rhyming words follow

traditional poem of Japan with three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

narrative poem; often passed along from generation to generation

words that rhyme are in the middle of the line

light, humorous, five-line verse with an AABBAA rhyme pattern

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter & joined by rhyme, that form a unit

a basic structural component of a poem

a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech & song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, & often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, & stanzaic structure

a person who writes poems

The poem is an extended metaphor .?

What is a hyperbole?