Poetry Vocabulary
This is the poetry version of a sentence.
What is a line?
The narrator of a poem.
What is a speaker?
This is the kind of poetry that doesn't follow a set rhythm or rhyme.
What is free verse?
This is a comparison of two things using 'like' or 'as'.
What is simile?
"I am so hungry I could eat a horse"
What is hyperbole?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The point of view in which the speaker is participating in the story
What is first person point of view?
True or false: all poems MUST rhyme.
What is false?
This is when you give a non-human object human like qualities.
What is personification?
"The fog came on little cat feet"
What is personification?
This is what SLRM stands for.
What is stanza, line, rhyme and meter?
The message or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
This is a funny, Irish, 5 line poem.
What is a limerick?
This is when two or more words start with the same letter.
What is alliteration?
An example of this is AABBA.
What is a rhyme scheme?
This is the phrase for the rhyme in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
The problem or conflict in a story.
What is plot?
This is a poem where the first letter of every line forms a word.
What is an acrostic?
This is two opposite things put together.
What is oxymoron?
"Her smile was as bright as the sun"
what is a personification/simile?
This is another word for the meter of a poem.
What is rhythm?
The idea of how words make an image in your head
What is imagery?
This is an ancient Japanese form of poetry.
What is haiku?
You can not get the real meaning of a phrase from this type of figurative language.
What is idiom?
"She put me in a wild goose chase"
What is an idiom?