Poetry Vocabulary

a group of lines in poetry

in a story or essay, this would be called a paragraph

• stanza

• verse

• theme

• end rhyme

one line in a poem

in a story or essay, this would be called a sentence

• verse

• stanza

• repetition

• theme

pattern of rhyme in a poem

• rhyme scheme

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• repetition

an author's attitude towards a subject - revealed through word choice

• tone

• mood

• stanza

• theme

a story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes

how it makes the reader feel

• mood

• tone

• theme

• verse

purposeful repeating of a word, phrase, or line

• repetition

• rhyme scheme

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

rhymes that occur at the end of lines

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• verse

rhyming of words within a line

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• theme

• mood

the message, point, or lesson about life that the author wishes to reveal about a topic

• theme

• mood

• tone

• stanza

an extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• alliterature

• allusion

• idiom