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Poetry Terms

QuestionAnswer
Speaker the voice behind the poem;it's not always the poet.
Couplet a pair of rhyming lines in a poem
Imagery language that appeals to the five senses
Consonance repetition of an internal consonant sounds
Assonance repetition of internal vowel sounds
Symbol anything that stand s for or represents something else.
Metaphor a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as
Simile a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Hyperbole an extreme exaggeration; an overstatement.
Rhyme Scheme the regular pattern of rhyming words
Poetry a literary work written in verse
Figurative Language writing that is not meant to be taken literally, rather it is used to create vivid impressions and set up comparisons
Allusion a reference to a real person,place, thing used in a literary work, usually to form a comparison
Mood the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Personification giving non human objects human characteristics
Theme the central message or insight revealed in a literary work; the universal message.
Tone a writers voice and attitude in a piece of writing or poetry
Alliteration repetition of the initial sound in a word.
Shakespearean Sonnet a poem written in 14 iambic lines with the rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg
Quatrain a stanza of a poem consisting of four lines
Stanza the formal division of lines in a poem
Repetition the use of any element of language more than once in an literary work
Irony a literary technique which shows the differences between what is expected and what is reality
Iambic a rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Created by: CHSEnglish4
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