Poetry Vocabulary

3. a group of lines arranged together
6. When a person, place, thing, or event represents something else. EX: Doves equal peace.
7. a comparison of two things without using like of as
8. A part of a word (The word ‘Kevin’ has 2)
9. a comparison of two things using like or as
10. the narrator of the poem
15. A Japanese poem written in three lines, usually about nature
16. the atmosphere and feelings that readers feel when they read a poem
17. shows the poet's attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem
19. giving non-human things human qualities or behaviors
20. Language that appeals to the five senses (smell, touch, taste, sound, sight)
21. A group of words together in a poem

1. sounds that imitate the sound they are naming
2. funny
4. Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)
5. When two words have the same sound. (tall, small, fall, ball…)
11. a person who writes poetry
12. to take notes while you read
13. the ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem
14. a kind of poem that tells a story
18. a sound or word repeated regularly in a poem