Poetry Vocabulary

Flashcards for poetry terms.

Figurative Language

Language used to enrich writing.

Simile

Comparison using "like" or "as."

Metaphor

Comparison not using "like" or "as."

Onomatopoeia

A word that imitates a sound.

Alliteration

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

Personification

Giving human characteristics to non-human objects.

Oxymoron

Expression with opposite meanings.

Idiom

Expression with opposite meanings that can't be taken literally.

Verse

A line in poetry.

Stanza

A group of lines in a poem.

Internal rhyme

Rhyme within lines.

End rhyme

Rhymes at the end of lines.

Rhyme scheme

The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem, written as letters.

Repetition

Something that is repeated to give emphasis

Syllables

Divide words by sounds

Poetic foot

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Iambic Pentameter

5 feet

exposition

the setting, time and characters

inciting incident

the element that started the problem

rising action

series of events that rises the inciting incident

climax

the edge of the problem/story

falling action

series of elements that follows the climax and the story is resolving

resolution

they continue their lives with the consequences of their actions or the changes in their lives