Poetry Vocabulary

4. A quotation placed beneath the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem.
5. a strong, regular, repeated pattern of sounds, movements, or changes
6. Using vivid or figurative language to represent ideas, objects, or actions.
7. A pair of rhymed lines.
12. a poetic technique where a sentence or clause continues from one line or stanza to the next without pausing or ending with punctuation
13. A fixed light-verse form of five generally anapestic lines rhyming AABBA.

1. A central or recurring image or action in a literary work that is shared by other works.
2. A grouped set of lines, like a paragraph in prose.
3. Wrote 'Shall I compare thee to a Summers Day?'
5. the repetition of identical or similar sounds at the end of words
8. A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. Its stanza forms vary.
9. Percy Shelley's most famous poem
10. A 14-line poem, often in iambic pentameter.
11. A short, unrhymed poem with a 5-7-5 syllable structure.