Poetry Terms

Stanza

• groups of poetry lines
• groups of stanzas
• One single line in a poem

Figurative language

• writing or speech not meant to be taken literally
• writing or speech not meant to be taken abstractly
• Concrete phrases in writing

Metaphors

• describes one thing as if it were something else
• gives human qualities to something else
• phrases that use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things
• anything that represents something else

Metaphors

• The house was a zoo this morning!
• The house was as quiet as a mouse.
• The house had a million floors.
• The house cried each time someone walked.

Personification

• gives human qualities to something else
• describes one thing as if it were something else
• phrases that use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things
• anything that represents something else

Personification

• The cars growled in the traffic.
• The cars were as slow as mice.
• The cars were cheetahs.
• The cars crashed carefully.

Similes

• phrases that use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things
• gives human qualities to something else
• describes one thing as if it were something else
• anything that represents something else

Similes

• He stormed into the meeting like a tornado.
• He was a tornado in the meeting.
• He hummed highly at her.

Symbol

• anything that represents something else
• describes one thing as if it were something else
• phrases that use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things
• describes one thing as if it were something else figuratively

Symbol

• A dove is mean peace
• The heart was fast.
• The magnet was strong.