Poetry Structure
A horizontal group of words
Line
Instructions for the actors and actresses.
Stage directions.
Slant rhyme
The answer was clear as day!
Simile
Characters like Lennie, who we can count on to never change.
A group of lines
Stanza
A long speech that other characters listen to.
Monologue
Rhyming words at the end of different lines.
End rhyme
My cat is a monster if she doesn't get her treats.
Metaphor
A play with a tragic hero, a tragic flaw, and a tragic ending.
Tragedy
Has a syllable pattern of 5/7/5. Often about nature.
Haiku
When a character thinks out loud in the form of a long speech. Others can't hear this.
Soliloquy
Rhyming words in the same line.
Internal rhyme
The light danced on the surface.
Personification
Pop! Boom! Bzz
Onomatopoeia
A poem dedicated to a person or a thing.
Ode
A remark to the crowd or a character meant to be like a whisper.
Aside
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
The rhyme scheme
ABCB
Mr. Jones has talked about his cat a million times.
Hyperbole
Curley's wife is a lot more complex than you expect! She's this type of character.
Round Character
A 14-line poem often used by Shakespeare. It is written in iambic pentameter and ends with a couplet.
Sonnet
The repetition of a vowel sound across several words.
Assonance
A type of poetry that does not require rhyming.
“Bread of bitterness” and “tiger’s tooth” are examples of this figurative language.
Alliteration
Forgot to add a subject to this sentence, making it a ______.
Fragment