Poetry Words

2. a way of describing something by comparing it to something else using 'like' or 'as'
4. a short, five-line poem where each line has a specific number of syllables: 2, 4, 6, 8, and then back to 2
5. a way of describing something by saying it is something else without using "like" or "as"
8. a piece of writing that uses imaginative words to share ideas, emotions or a story with the reader
9. a type of poem that uses the letters of a word to divide the lines of the poem
14. a 7 line poem that uses nouns, verbs, and adjectives to contrast two topics
16. when an idea, object, or animal acts like a person
17. the beat or flow of a poem; the stressed and unstressed syllables
19. poem, a poem that gives information about a person to form a short biography of that person's traits and life
20. a line of a poem is one row of text

1. a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
3. the words or lines that are repeated to show the importance of those words
6. an extreme exaggeration used for emphasis
7. a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions
10. a 5 line poem using nouns, verbs, and adjectives to describe a topic
11. scheme, the rhyming patterns in poetry. They tell you which lines in a stanza rhyme
12. a group of lines in a poem
13. verse, a type of poetry that is free of rules and patterns. They do not have a rhyming pattern
15. a phrase that actually means something different from its literal meaning
18. a style of Japanese poetry that is typically about nature, are three lines long, and have 5 syllables in the 1st and 3rd line and 7 syllables in the 2nd line