Poetry Vocabulary #1

writing in shorter lines to slow the reader down

• alliteration

• imagery

• line breaks

• repitition

saying that one thing IS something else

• metaphor

• imagery

• rhythm

• similie

giving human traits to something that is not human

• imagery

• personification

• line breaks

• rhythm

repeating something to emphasize a message or theme

• simile

• alliteration

• repetition

• personificiation

comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

• metaphor

• simile

• rhythm

• imagery

using the same sound at the beginning of words

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

makes you want to tap your feet

• repitition

• metaphor

• rhythm

• alliteration

helping the reader form a picture in their mind

• alliteration

• imagery

• repitition

• metaphor

a piece of writing that conveys a message through language and often relates to culture, art, nature, or life

• poem

• line breaks

• metaphor

• repetition

A poem of Japanese origin, composed of three lines and seventeen syllables.​

It’s written in a 5/7/5 syllable count and does not rhyme

• poem

• verse

• stanza

• haiku