Poetry Terms 1
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
A story/narrative in poetic form.
Ballad
A word that sounds like what it means. Ex: buzz, click, bang, sizzle
Onomontopeia
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.”
Simile
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
Allusion
The author’s specific word choice.
Diction
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
Rhythm
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Stanza
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis
and the number of syllables per line
Meter
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
Symbol
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
Symbol
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
Consonance
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Free verse
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
Theme
The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.
Tone
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
Assonance
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Enjambment
A single line of poetry
Verse