Poetic Terminology

5. Using objects or ideas to represent something else.
7. Two lines of verse, usually with end rhymes.
8. Vivid descriptions using sensory details (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch).
10. A stanza of four lines.
12. Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
15. Exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
16. A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
17. Scheme: The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a stanza (e.g., ABAB, ABBA).
18. A pause or break in a line of poetry.

1. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
2. A direct comparison, stating one thing is another.
3. The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next.
4. A comparison using "like" or "as."
6. Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.
9. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
11. Presenting something as less significant than it is.
13. structure: When the first and last stanzas contain the same vocabulary/images
14. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.