Type of Poems
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Figurative Language Examples
Poetry Misc.
100

Poem that tells a story

Narrative Poem 

100

Lines or words that are repeated in a poem 

Repetition 

100

the comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as

Simile

100

BANG 

Onomatopoeia 

100

The author of a poem 

Poet

200

A poem that is funny and can be silly at times 

Humorous 

200

Where each line of texts end in the poem 

Line Break

200

the repetition of the same beginning sound

alliteration

200

Poetry is pretty popular 

Alliteration 

200

The moral or lesson of the poem or story 

Theme

300

Expresses strong feelings like a song. It can rhyme. 

Lyrical 

300

A sentence in a paragraph

Line 

300

a sound device in which a word makes the sound

onomatopoeia

300

Life is a highway 

Metaphor

300

The voice of a poem 

Speaker

400

A poem with no set rhythm or rhyme

Free Verse 

400

A _____ is a subdivision of a poem that looks like a paragraph

Stanza 

400

Exaggeration 

Hyperbole
400

I was starving!

Hyperbole

400

The beat of a poem 

Rhythm 

500

often distributed in a specific 5-7-5 pattern

Haiku

500

______ is used to help readers understand how things look, feel, smell, taste and sound.

Imagery 

500

when human qualities and ideas are given to things

personification

500

He's over the hill

Idiom

500

Something that represents something beyond itself 

Ex. Heart = Love

Symbol or Symbolism