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Poetry Elements
vocabulary words for the elements of poetry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allegory | a story with a hidden meaning or message |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. |
| allusion | a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds He eats the sweet treats. |
| blank verse | poetry that does not rhyme but follows a regular meter |
| connotation | implied or suggested meaning associated with a word or phrase (you must "read between the lines" to understand the meaning). |
| couplet | a two-line stanza, or two lines of verse |
| elegy | a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss |
| epic | a long, often book-length, poem that retells the heroic journey of a person or people |
| fable | a story in prose or verse that often arrives at a moral |
| form | the structure of a poem, including its line lengths, line breaks, meter, stanza lengths, and rhyme scheme |
| free verse | open form poetry that reads like someone is talking |
| haiku | a poem that originated in Japan, composed of three lines with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count, and often focuses on images from nature |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis |
| idiom | a short expression where you cannot take the phrase literally |
| imagery | language in a poem representing the five senses (taste, touch, sight, sound, smell) |
| limerick | a silly poem composed of five lines |
| line | a unit in verse |
| metaphor | a comparison not using like or as |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using words “such as,” “like,” and “as.” |
| meter | the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse |
| onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like the thing or action it describes eg. buzz, splash, sizzle, slam |
| personification | giving living/human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas eg. the whistling wind, the angry ocean |
| proverb | a short statement or saying that expresses a basic truth |
| repetition | repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem or work |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes falling at the ends of a poem’s lines |
| slant rhyme | a rhyme formed with words with similar but not wholly identical sounds; also called an off rhyme, half rhyme, and imperfect rhyme |
| speaker | the voice of the poem, similar to a narrator in fiction |
| stanza | a grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem (like a paragraph in a story) |
| symbol | an object or action that stands for something beyond itself |
| tone | conveys the author’s attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem |
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