Poetry Unit Vocabulary

1. a musical quality produced by repetition. The rise and fall of our voices as we use language.
2. occur within lines, as in “the fair breeze blew, the white foam flew…”
4. directly compares two unlike things without the use of a specific word of comparison.
5. when stressed and unstressed syllables are arranged in a regular pattern
7. taking what you read and what you know to make a sensible conclusion.
8. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and express a complete thought
10. when writers give human or living qualities to nonhuman or nonliving things
11. a poem that tells a story
12. a poem that expresses an emotion
14. the writer’s attitude, the way a writer feels about a subject
17. a poem without rhyme or a regular meter
20. language that appeals to any of the five senses, most often sight, but also hearing, touch, taste, and smell
21. the repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words
22. a poem that mourns the passing of something – a person, an animal, a way of life, a season of the year – that is important to the writer
24. a group of lines in a poem that form a unit
25. compares two unlike things, using a specific word of comparison such as like or as.

1. the repetition of the sound of a stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables that follow
3. a humorous five-line poem. Limericks have a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme.
6. message
9. the use of words that sound like what they mean (honk, crash, bang, boom, hiss)
13. scheme a poems pattern of rhymes, end rhymes determine a poem’s rhyme scheme
15. a poem that pays tribute to someone or something of great importance to the poet.
16. putting something into your own words, keeping the writer's meaning.
18. metaphor a metaphor that is developed, or extended, through several lines of writing or even throughout an entire poem
19. a lyric poem of fourteen lines
20. pictures poets create through their writing
23. of speech compares one thing to something else, something very different