Poetry Vocabulary

1. Poetry Vocabulary www.assignmentpoint.com

2. Alliteration: • Repetition of initial consonant sounds • Allusion: • A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art • Ballad: • A song-like poem that tells a story • BlankVerse: • Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-syllable lines www.assignmentpoint.com

3. ConcretePoem: • A poem with a shape that suggests its subject • FigurativeLanguage: • Writing that is not meant to be taken literally • FreeVerse: • Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter • Haiku: • A three-lined Japanese verse www.assignmentpoint.com

4. Image: • A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses • LyricPoem: • Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker • Metaphor: • A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else www.assignmentpoint.com

5. Mood: • The feeling created in the reader by a literary work • NarrativePoem: • A story told in verse • Onomatopoeia: • The use of words that imitate sounds • Personification: • A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics www.assignmentpoint.com

6. Refrain: • A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem • Repetition: • The use, more than once, of any element of language • Rhyme: • Repetition of sounds at the end of words • RhymeScheme: • A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem www.assignmentpoint.com

7. Rhythm: • Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language • Simile: • A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas • Stanza: • A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit My love is like a red rose. www.assignmentpoint.com