Poetry Terms

Writers use these to underscore the meaning of certain words, enhance rhythm.

Occurs when two words in the same line rhyme

Repetition of constant sounds

The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that establish the rhythm of the poem

The organization of images, ideas, and words

The external pattern of a poem, dictates rhythm, meter and rhyme

Uses the words like or as to compare two unlike objects

Two lines per stanza

Four Lines per Stanza

When a rhyme is similar but not identical

The pattern of end rhyme in a poem, using different letters for each new rhyme

How poems are organized is called...

Attributes human characteristics to an animal, object or idea

Five Lines per stanza

Six lines per stanza

The analysis of the meter in a line of poetry

Language that appeals to the 5 senses

The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, can be irregular or regular

Compares 2 or more different things, implying one is the other

Eight Lines per Stanza

A word or expression that is not meant to be taken literally