Vocabulary About Poems
an indirect reference to an outside work of art of cultural figure
The wind whispered through the trees.
Personification
She is as bright as the sun.
She is the sun.
Allah
God in Arabic
Define: rhyme scheme
thew pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem
implied metaphor
a comparison that is not made directly
I’ve told you a million times to clean your room.
Hyperbole
He's as cold as ice.
His heart is ice.
learn'd
learned in a shorted form
What is unique about how Emily Dickinson named her poems?
stanza
a section of a poem, a group fo lines
The bacon sizzled in the pan.
Onomatopoeia
She's as fierce as a lion on the court.
She's a lion on the court.
mystical
magical, not of this world
If I am writing an ars poetica, I am writing a poem...
about writing poetry.
quatrain
four-line stanza
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
He's quick, like lightning.
He's lightning when he's running.
pulsing
throbbing rhythmically, like a heart beat
The space between stanzas is called...
a stanza break.
tone
the attitude of a piece of writing, expressed through the style of writing and words the author uses
The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
Their words are blades.
rue
regret or feel sorry about
A villanelle is a poem form that...
has nineteen lines and a set patter of repeating and rhyming words