Poetry Terms

similar end sounds

a position or outlook from which the speaker tells a story or observes something

a comparison that uses like or as to show a connection

the repeating of words or lines in poetry

a reference to another person, place, thing, or text (usually a well-known story, myth, folktale, or legend)

the last words of certain lines follow a clear rhyming pattern

a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

the repetition of initial consonant sounds (the first letters of several words repeat)

a direct comparison between two things

groups of lines that are separated by spaces

the repetition of a consonant sound within a group of words

using human qualities to describe non-human things

the use of words whose meaning is suggested by their sounds

the speaker's (or poet's) attitude toward the subject of the poem

the use of one object to signify or represent something else

the repetition of a vowel sound (not at the beginning of the word)

a message or universal understanding that a poem explores

similar to the narrator of a story; he or she is the voice of the poem

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

rows of words that do not follow the same rules of punctuation and capitalization as in other writing