Academic Vocabulary for Poetry

a literary device that reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work

• tone

• speaker

• context

• theme

the skills and techniques that an author uses to tell a story or create a piece of writing

• imagery

• author's craft

• effect

• simile

Sentences or phrases, constructed in a way that alludes to something without directly stating it.

• figurative language

• imagery

• effect

• author's craft

the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work

• theme

• effect

• mood

• author's craft

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

• stanzas

• message

• context

• conclude

A single row of words that ends at the right

• lines

• stanzas

• message

• tone

In poetry, the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud.

• author's craft

• speaker

• author's purpose

• message

A frame of reference from which to build comprehension

• imagery

• context

• simile

• conclude

the reason for or intent in writing

• author's craft

• author's purpose

• theme

• structure

As a literary device, ____ refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story

• mood

• context

• convey

• metaphor