Words and definitions that you see in POETRY

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

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

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)