Poetry Vocabulary Terms

a group of words in a line in a poem

• stanza

• line

• paragraph

• sentence

The way the poet chooses to arrange lines in the poem.

• line

• sentence

• paragraph

• structure

an element that writers use to make their writing more interesting and expressive.

• figurative language

• stanza

• structure

• theme

the beat, the way the poem flows when you read it

• rhythm

• theme

• tone

• mood

words with the same sounds at the end.

• rhythm

• tone

• rhyme

• volume

the feeling or mood that the words give

• theme

• tone

• rhyme

• stanza

words that appeal to the senses (see, touch, feel, hear, sounds, taste, smell)

• tempo

• volume

• tone

• imagery

A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme.

• symbol

• stanza

• syllable

What is it called when the ending sound of a word corresponds to another word?

• Rhythm

• Stanza

• Rhyme

• Personification

When words have ending sounds that correspond to one another
Example:  cat and hat

• metaphor

• rhythm

• rhyme

• poem