Poetry Terms

This refers to the way a poem is presented to the reader.

• Structure

• Tone

• Theme

• Alliteration

This is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.

• Tone

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Assonance

This is the underlying message that the writer or artist wants to convey.

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

This is is when a poet repeat the beginning consonant sounds of words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Repetition

This is is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Repetition

• Parallelism

This is is a pleasing sounding caused by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems.

• Consonance

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Structure

This is repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Structure

• Tone

This is when an author constructs parts of a sentence to be grammatically similar.

• Parallelism

• Structure

• Tone

• Theme

This is an idea or feeling that a word may hold that is in addition to its main meaning.

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Parallelism

• Repetition

This is the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.

• Denotation

• Tone

• Parallelism

• Theme