1. Words and definitions that you see in POETRY

2. Poetry Terms… Alliteration* Rhythm Free verse Simile* Imagery Stanza*
Metaphor*
Onomatopoeia*
Poetry*
Refrain
Personification
Repetition
Rhythm
Simile*
Stanza*
Tone*
Rhyme*
end rhyme
internal rhyme
rhyme scheme

3. Poetry
DEFINITION: Writing, usually with a rhythm, that repeats, has rhyme, shows emotion, and uses imagination

4. Alliteration
DEFINITION: The repeating of the same or very similar sounds in words that are close together.
EXAMPLE:
-Two witches were watching trick-or-treaters out the window
-Go and gather green leaves on the grass
-Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

5. Free Verse
DEFINITION: Poetry without a regular rhythm or a rhyme (doesn’t rhyme)
EXAMPLE:
Thunder rolls,
from booming clouds.
Hanging overhead, growling-
like black wolves.
Flashing brilliant white fangs.

6. Imagery *Most images are visual, but can appeal to all senses.
DEFINITION: Language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes.
*Most images are visual, but can appeal to all senses.
EXAMPLE:
Instead of saying, “She felt happy.” You could say, “Her smile lit up the room like wildfire.”

7. Metaphor
DEFINITION: A phrase that describes something by comparing it to something else.
EXAMPLE:
-I was a lonely wandering cloud.
-The sun is a golden ball.
-She is a snail.

8. Simile
DEFINITION: Comparing two different things using the words like, as, or than.
EXAMPLES:
-as tiny as a mouse
-as bright as the sun
-bright like the sun
-taller than a skyscraper

9. Onomatopoeia
DEFINITION: A word that imitates the sound of a noun or verb.
EXAMPLES:
-boom, buzz, tick-tock,
crash, a-choo, hiss, click,
beep, sizzle, quack
-Buzz goes the bee
-The bell rings

10. Refrain EXAMPLE: A song with a repeated chorus.
DEFINITION: A group of words repeated at certain parts in a poem, song, or speech.
EXAMPLE:
A song with a repeated chorus.

11. Rhythm
DEFINITION: A poem where the words create a pattern or rhythm. It sometimes has repeated phrases and rhyming words.
EXAMPLES:

12. Stanza
DEFINITION: A group of lines that form one section of a poem. (kind of like a paragraph)
EXAMPLE:

13. Line
DEFINITION: A single row of words in a poem.
EXAMPLES:

14. Personification
DEFINITION: A figure of speech giving human characteristics to non-human things such as animals, objects, or ideas.
EXAMPLE:
-The sun smiled down on the beach
-The slice of bread jumped out of the toaster
-The wind whispered through the trees
-My bed is calling my name
-The stars were winking in the night sky

15. Repetition DEFINITION: A repeated phrase or word in a poem.
EXAMPLES: “I have a dream…” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

16. Tone DEFINITION: The writer’s attitude throughout the poem.
-Similar to mood, which is how the poet makes the reader feel
EXAMPLE:
-A poem can be serious, funny, sad, happy, positive, negative, depressing, angry, and so much more.
-It is similar to mood but TONE is throughout a piece of writing.

17. Rhyme
DEFINITION: A word that ends with the same sound as another word.
EXAMPLE:

18. Rhyme Scheme
DEFINITION: The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. A separate letter of the alphabet is used to mark off the rhyme scheme; ABBA, ABCCB
EXAMPLE:

19. Types of Rhyme
End Rhyme: words that rhyme at the end of lines of poems.
Ex. Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Internal Rhyme: are rhymes in the middle of lines.
Ex. Back in the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning. (Edgar Allan Poe)