1. POETRY TERMS  PLEASE TAKE NOTES AS YOU FOLLOW ALONG.

2.  ACROSTIC VISUAL POEM THAT SHOWS A WORD GOING VERTICALLY DOWN, THE PHRASES OR SENTENCES COMING OUT OF THE LETTER ARE HORIZONTAL

3. ALLITERATION REPETITION OF THE SAME SOUNDS WITHIN WORDS THAT ARE CLOSE TOGETHER

4. ASSONANCE REPETITION OF VOWEL SOUNDS WITHIN WORDS

5. BALLAD A SONG LIKE POEM THAT TELLS A STORY, OFTEN ONE DEALING WITH ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE

6. CINQUAIN POEM WITH 5 LINES

7. CONCRETE A POEM WHOSE SHAPE RESEMBLES THE OBJECT IT DESCRIBES

8. COUPLET A POEM WITH 2 RHYMING LINES

9. DIAMONTE A POEM THAT TAKES A “DIAMOND” SHAPE, USES A PARTICULAR LENGTH OF WORDS

10. ELEGY A SOLEMN AND FORMAL LYRIC POEM ABOUT DEATH

11. END RHYME WORDS THAT RHYME AT THE END OF A LINE OF POETRY

12. EPIC A LONG NARRATIVE POEM

13. EPITHET A PHRASE THAT POINTS OUT A NOTABLE CHARACTERISTIC OF A PERSON OR OBJECT

14. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WORDS OR PHRASES USED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SUGGEST MORE THAN THEIR USUAL MEANING

15. FREE VERSE POETRY THAT IS “FREE” OF TRADITIONAL STRUCTURE

16. HAIKU 3 LINE JAPANESE POEM WITH 17 SYLLABLES, WRITTEN MOSTLY ABOUT NATURE

17. HEPTASTICH 7 LINED POEM

18. HYPERBOLE FIGURE OF SPEECH THAT EXAGGERATES THE TRUTH TO EMPHASIZE AN IDEA OR FEELING

19. IMAGERY WORDS OR PHRASES THAT APPEAL TO ONE OR MORE OF THE FIVE SENSES

20. LIMERICK A SHORT HUMOROUS POEM FROM IRELAND WITH 5 LINES RHYMED (AABBA )

21. LYRIC A POEM THAT HAS A SINGLE SPEAKER AND EXPRESSES A DEEP EMOTION, OFTEN HAVING A MUSICAL QUALITY

22. METAPHOR A FIGURE OF SPEECH IN WHICH ONE THING IS SPOKEN ABOUT AS IF IT WERE ANOTHER, UNLIKE THING

23. MOOD FEELINGS OR MEANING CONVEYED IN THE POEM

24. NARRATIVE POEM TELLS A STORY

25. OCTET 8 LINED POEM

26. ODE A SINGLE UNIFIED VERSE THAT HAS A SINGLE PURPOSE AND A SINGLE THEME

27. ONOMATOPOEIA THE USE OF WORDS WHOSE SOUNDS IMITATE OR SUGGEST THEIR MEANING (CRASH, BUZZ, HISS)

28. PERSONIFICATION A FIGURE OF SPEECH IN WHICH AN ANIMAL OR AN OBJECT IS GIVEN HUMAN QUALITIES

29. QUATRAIN 4 LINED POEM

30. REFRAIN ONE OR MORE LINES THAT ARE REPEATED IN A POEM OR SONG

31. REPETITION THE USE OF A SOUND, WORD, PHRASE, LINE OR STANZA THAT IS REPEATED TWO OR MORE TIMES IN A POEM

32. RHYME SCHEME THE PATTERN OF END RHYME IN A POEM

33. RHYTHM THE PATTERN OF STRESSED AND UNSTRESSED SYLLABLES IN A POEM

34. SENSORY LANGUAGE DESCRIBES SIGHTS, SOUNDS, SMELLS, TASTES, AND TOUCH

35. SESTET 6 LINED POEM

36. SIMILE COMPARES TWO UNLIKE THINGS, USING THE WORDS (LIKE, AS, APPEAR, SEEM)

37. SONNET 14 LINE POEM WITH A FIXED PATTERN OF RHYTHM AND FOLLOWS A RHYME SCHEME

38. SPEAKER CHARACTER OR VOICE ASSUMED BY THE WRITER

39. STANZA A GROUP OF LINES IN A POEM

40. SYMBOL A PERSON, PLACE, OR THING THAT STANDS FOR SOMETHING ELSE

41. TERCET 3 LINED POEM

42. THEME MESSAGE THAT THE AUTHOR CONVEYS IN A POEM

43. TONE WRITER’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SUBJECT AND/OR AUDIENCE