Poetry Vocabulary

1. a stanza of four lines
3. two lines of poetry that rhyme.
5. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
7. stop oneself from doing something
8. rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
9. peech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
15. the literal or primary meaning of a word
16. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
17. correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words,
18. verse without rhyme
21. visual images collectively.
23. suggested by a word or thing
25. poem of fourteen lines

2. strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
4. personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
6. a spoken or written account of connected events
8. repeating something that has already been said or written.
10. comparing two unlike things without using like or as
11. a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.
12. poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
13. expressing the writer's emotions
14. sweet birds sang
19. implied or indirect reference
20. using symbols to represent
22. language that normally signifies the opposite
24. The basic unit of length in the metric system