Poetry Terms 101
__1. Free VerseA. Poetry without rhyme or meter
__2. HyperboleB. Comparing two unlike things "without" using like or as
__3. IdiomC. Rhyme within a line of poetry
__4. Internal rhymeD. Saying one thing and meaning another, not literal meaning
__5. MetaphorE. Words whose sounds suggest their meaning
__6. OnomatopoeiaF. an exaggeration
__7. PersonificationG. Is a description of something non human as if it were human
__8. RefrainH. A line or phrase repeated at the end of a stanza
__9. SimileI. Comparison of two things that uses the words like or as
__10. SymbolJ. A concrete object used to represent an idea
__11. alliterationA. a group of words that form a line in a poem
__12. epicB. the structure or rules of a poem
__13. figurative languageC. a group of lines forming a unit in a poem
__14. formD. a very long narrative poem with a hero
__15. imageryE. a lyric poem celebrating a person,event, thing, etc
__16. lineF. compares one thing with another but not taken literally
__17. odeG. a fourteen-line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme
__18. rhythmH. the musical quality of a poem created by a syllabic pattern
__19. sonnetI. a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
__20. stanzaJ. language that appeals to the five senses
__21. allusionA. Japanese verse of three lines with 17 syllables
__22. concrete poemB. a metaphor developed over several lines of the poem
__23. consonanceC. a repetition of consonant sounds that appear in words
__24. coupletD. a unit of meter
__25. extended metaphorE. a play on words or words that have double meanings
__26. footF. is two consecutive lines that rhyme
__27. haikuG. finding & marking a pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
__28. punH. words in a poem create shape of object related to poem
__29. scanningI. a reference to a person, place, event, or literature
__30. assonanceA. a repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
__31. ballardB. a narrative poem that has a rhyme, meter,and a refrain
__32. iambC. a pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables
__33. limerickD. expresses the feelings and emotions of the speaker or poet
__34. lyricE. tells a story, has a setting, characters, and plot
__35. meterF. a five-line poem that rhymes
__36. narrativeG. regular pattern of rhyming words indicated lower case(abab)
__37. quatrainH. an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
__38. rhyme schemeI. the attitude of the poet or speaker toward his audience
__39. toneJ. four lined stanze
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