Figurative Language
“Her love is like a red, red rose.” -Robert Burns
Simile
A group of lines in a poem; a poem paragraph.
Stanza
Giving living characteristics to non-living things.
Personification
Unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5.
Haiku
Juxtapose
To place things side by side for comparison.
“Hope is the thing with feathers.” -Emily Dickinson
Metaphor
The ordered pattern of repeating sounds at the end of each line of a poem.
Rhyme Scheme
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words.
Alliteration
14-line poem with a specific pattern of rhyme.
Sonnet
Abstruse
Difficult to understand.
“Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hyperbole
A stanza made up of four lines of verse.
Quatrain
A person, place, object, action, or event intended to represent something more than its literal meaning.
Symbol
Six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet. Also, the first half of the title ____:Like.
Sestina
Speculate
To form an opinion without evidence.
“Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” -Langston Hughes
Imagery
The overall structure of a poem.
Form
The voice of the poem.
Speaker
A short lyric poem that celebrates or praises a person, place, event, idea, or season.
Ode
Theology
The study of religion.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! -Edgar Allan Poe
Onomatopoeia
The pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables in a line, creating a rhythm.
Meter
Omitting sounds or syllables. Shakespeare never got o’er it.
Elision
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Free Verse
Chronological
In order of events; in sequence.