Poetry Vocab

Sentences OR a row of a poem

• Stanza

• Line

• Refrain

• Simile

A person who writes a poem.

• Author

• Speaker

• Poet

• Mood

The voice that talks to the reader in a poem.

• Poet

• Speaker

• Personification

• Metaphor

Looks like a paragraph found in a poem.

• Topic

• Theme

• Line

• Stanza

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Mood

A comparison without using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

word choice, figurative language, structure, imagery, meter, rhyme scheme etc.

• Stylistic Elements

• Metaphor

• Poet

• Connotation

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Diction

• Alliteration

the subject of a poem

• Theme

• Topic

• Tone

• Alliteration