Poetry Terms

A shift in a sonnet.

• metaphor

• fixed form

• volta

• consonance

This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.

• stanza

• ballad

• slant rhyme

• enjambment

A complex lyric poem that develops a serious and dignified theme

• internal rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• theme

• ode

The repetition of beginning sounds in one or two lines of poetry

• consonance

• alliteration

• assonance

• verse

A story or narrative in poetic form

• ballad

• elegy

• personification

• simile

Poetry that has specific formula or template:

• free verse

• slant rhyme

• lyric

• fixed form

Emotional response evoked by a word. Can have positive or negative responses.

• connotation

• denotation

• rhythm

• stanza

Rhyme that occurs within single of poetry.

• ode

• internal rhyme

• theme

• metaphor

An extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects on death - often a tribute to a person who has died recently.

• elegy

• end rhyme

• stanza

• lyric

A word that sounds like what it means.

• volta

• theme

• onomatopoeia

• ode