1. Compares two unlike things without using like or as
metaphor

2. A word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning such s “swoosh” went the ball
onomatopoeia

3. A group of lines in a poem (paragraph)
stanza

4. A type of poem that has no rhythm or rhyme
Free verse

5. Japanese poem that has three lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables and is about nature or seasons
Haiku

6. Poetic technique used to exaggerate such as “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!”
Hyperbole

7. Technique that gives human characteristics to non-human things
Personification

8. Technique used to compare two unlike things using like or as
simile

9. A person, place or thing that has meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself
symbol

10. Musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
rhythm

11. Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem
alliteration

12. a narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung
Ballad

13. Contradiction like “honest, thief” is an
oxymoron

14. – the words at the end of the lines rhyme or sound alike
End rhyme

15. – A type of poem that gets its name from the fact that it is always five lines long
Cinquain

16. two lines that rhyme a,a; b,b; c,c
Couplet

17. A pattern of end rhyme a, b, a, b, c, a, b, c
Rhyme scheme

18. concrete words or details that appeal to the senses
Imagery

19. a five line poem; lines 1,2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme
Limerick

20. – regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter

21. – repetition of like sounds
Rhyme

22. – the feeling within the work (sad, happy, serious)
Mood

23. – the author’s attitude toward his work
Tone

24. – the main idea
Theme