POETRY TERMS- SENIORS
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| personification | a figure of speech that gives human traits to something nonhuman
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| speaker | the voice of a poem that communicates to the reader
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| simile | a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things using like or as
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| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things WITHOUT using like or as
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| meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line
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| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem formed at the ends of the lines--to describe it one uses a letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyming sound
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| alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds (like silly Sally or dusk of impending death)
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| internal rhyme | the rhyme that occurs when rhyming words fall within the same line of a poem
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| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words like low and ghost
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| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in words within a line, like fall and faithful
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| imagery | descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses--sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell.
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| approximate or slant rhyme | a rhyme that occurs when end rhymes are similar, but not exact, as in prove and glove
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| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sound, like boom or swish.
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| apostrophe | when the speaker addresses an absent person as if present or addresses a a personified quality or object
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| symbol | a concrete object that represents an abstract ideal
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| caesura | a pause or sudden stop in a line of poetry
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| enjambment | the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another
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| Free verse | poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme
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| Lyric | poetry that expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker
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| narrative | poetry that tells a story
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