Poetry Term Review

A poem that takes a shape that suggests its subject.

• Alliteration

• Concrete Poem

• Narrative Poem

• Figurative Language

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

• Imagery

• Free Verse

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern or meter.

• Free Verse

• Narrative Poem

• Concrete Poem

• Metaphor

Groups of lines in a poem that are usually similar in length and rhythm and are separated into sections.

• Prose

• Stanza

• Alliteration

• Refrain

A figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else.

• Personification

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

The use of words to imitate sounds.

• Figurative Language

• Refrain

• Onomatopoeia

• Prose

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Prose

• Rhythm

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.

• Prose

• Idiom

• Figurative Language

• Metaphor

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song.

• Stanza

• Refrain

• Free Verse

• Prose