Poetry Vocabulary

4. An author’s individual or unique choice of words when writing; this precise choice gives the author’s writing a unique “voice.”
5. Similar vowel sounds that repeat within a line or several lines of verse.
6. The voice of a poem.
7. A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar.
8. A quality, feeling, or attitude expressed by the words that someone uses in speaking or writing.
10. The meaning each reader makes when they read a text.
11. A type of figurative language that gives an animal or an object human qualities.
12. Words that use a reader’s senses (taste, touch, hearing, sight, or sound) to help the reader imagine pictures in their minds.
13. A statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly.
14. Language Words and phrases that an author uses to connect to a reader’s senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.

1. A type of figurative language that compares two objects or ideas using the words like or as.
2. The main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, a movie, etc.
3. A way of using words to paint pictures in your reader’s mind so that your reader can understand your ideas more clearly and completely.
4. The actual meaning of a word.
5. The use of words that begin with the same sound near one another.
9. The way a word may have more than one obvious meaning.