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| A poem with a shape that suggests its subject. The words, punctuation, and lines are arranged to create an image. |
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| Three line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables. The second line has seven syllables. It is about nature. It doesn't rhyme. |
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| Humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme. |
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| Highly musical verse that expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker. |
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| A 14-line poem in iambic pentamer |
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| An enthusiastic lyric poem written in irregular meter |
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| a mournful poem, especially for a funeral |
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| A simple, narrative poem of folk origin |
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| An old, narrative poem recalling the deeds of a hero |
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| The rhythmical pattern in a poem |
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| agreement in direction, tendency, or character |
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| a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
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| the voice a poet uses when writing a poem |
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| A group of lines in poetry that are similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces |
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| a poem of four lines with alternate rhymes |
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| A figure of speech on which something is described as though it were something else (she is a bright sun) |
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| a metaphor with several connected comparisons |
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| Makes a comparison without saying what it is being compared to |
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| an elaborate, fanciful metaphor |
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| a figure of speech which uses opposite or contradictory words. (i.e. jumbo shrimp) |
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| a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics (the sun smiled down on me after that harsh winter) |
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| a statement that compares two like things using the words "like" or "as" (the cat was as big as a house) |
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| A statement that means something different than what it says (the cat's pajamas) |
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| exaggeration (I waited in line for all eternity!) |
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| A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or piece of art. |
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| Words or phrases that appear to the senses (a warm, delicious piece of chocolate cake) |
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| A contradiction between what happens and what is expected to happen (Luke, I am your father!) |
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| The use of symbols (a hooded man carrying an axe) |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds (Fetch me the finest, french-fried, freshest fish that Finney fries) |
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| repetition of words at the beginning of verses, clauses, or sentences |
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| the repetition of initial vowel sounds (mEn sEll wEdding bElls) |
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| repetition of consonant sounds |
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| sound words (BANG! POW! ZOOM!) |
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| the use of a word or phrase to emphasize its different meanings |
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| the use more than once of any element of language |
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| the repetition of sounds at the end of words (do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them Sam I Am) |
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rhyming words at the end of lines
(Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?) |
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rhyme within lines
(would you like them here or there?) |
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| A pair of lines with similar rhyme and meter |
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| The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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