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Poetry Vocabulary
Poetry Vocabulary
Poetry Vocabulary
Poetry Vocabulary
Poetry Vocabulary
100
Author
Who writes the story?
100
To picture in your mind
What is Envision?
100
The same or similar sounds, typically at the end of lines
What is rhyme?
100
A musical patter or sound
What is rhythm?
100
A broad idea, message or moral of the story
What is theme?
200
A dominant idea that stretches beyond the text
What is central message?
200
An emotion an author describes, an emotional reaction in the reader
What is feeling?
200
Marks such as periods, commas, question marks, exclamation points that make the meaning of written material clear
What is punctuation?
200
The ways people perceive things (sight, taste, touch, hear, smell)
What is senses?
200
To teach, explain or make the reader think or feel
What is author's purpose?
300
To show how something is the same
What is compare?
300
Who creates the pictures
What is illustrator?
300
A part of a sentence, to express words in a particular way
What is phrase?
300
When two unlike things are explicitly compared
What is simile?
300
Giving people like qualities to animals or objects
What is personification?
400
To use words to tell about
What is describe?
400
To come to a conclusion based on evidence from the text
What is infer?
400
The physical end of the line, not always the end of a sentence or thought in a poem
What is line breaks?
400
The empty space between verses in a poem
What is white space?
400
Comparison of two unlike things to help the reader make a visual picture (figurative language)
What is metaphor?
500
A small part of the larger whole
What is details?
500
To define or explain
What is interpret?
500
Words that describe the topic, evoke emotion or lead to a central message
What is key words?
500
One section or stanza of a poem
What is verse?
500
Group of words or phrases in a poem separated by white space
What is stanza?