Poetry Terms

A message about life

• Repetition

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Simile

Lines of a poem that are separated into groups

• form

• imagery

• rhythm

• stanza

The "beat" of a poem

• rhyme

• hyperbole

• rhythm

• alliteration

The repetition of a consonant at the beginning of words

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

The arrangement of a poem on a page

• stanza

• form

• free verse

• imagery

Repeating sounds, words, phrases or lines in a poem

• repetition

• rhyme

• free verse

• rhythm

The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• symbolism

Words of phrases that appeal to the five senses

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• symbolism

• imagery

One thing stands for the idea of another

• onomatopoeia

• symbolism

• imagery

• repetition

Poems that don't have a regular rhythm or sound

• form

• alliteration

• free verse

• personification