Poem
Figurative Language
What Authors Use
100

A story/ narrative in poet form

Ballad

100

A word that sounds like what it means

Onomatopoeia

100

The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader

Theme

200

Unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of a poem.

Stanza

200

Occurs when one line end without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line

Enjambment 

200

The additude that the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character

Tone

300

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.

Free Verse

300

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place or work of art.

Allusion

300

The author's specific word choice

Diction

400

A single line of poetry

Verse

400

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Alliteration 

400

An object or actions that means something more than its literal meaning

Symbol

500

The recurrence of stressed sounds in poetry.

Rhythm

500

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words

Metaphor

500

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text

Assonance 

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