Poetry Vocab Review

The author’s specific word choice.

Poetry that follows some sort of fixed rules.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.”

Poetry that does not rhyme or have measurable elements.

A word that sounds like what it means.

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.

A single line of poetry.

A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.

The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.

An obvious, intentional extreme exaggeration.

A literary device that involves using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

Giving human qualities to animals or objects.

The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious,

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.”

This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.