POETRY TERMS

SPEAKER

• The one who speaks or tells the story.
• The speaker in the poem told a story about death.

LINE

• A unit of language in which a stanza is divided into.
• I read the first line in the poem, and it meant a lot to me.

STANZA

• A paragraph like text in a poem.
• The main idea of the first stanza was to never give up.

RHYTHM

• The beat of a a text or poem.
• The rhythm of the song was very slow.

METER

• The rhythm created in a poem.
• The meter of the poem was very fast.

ONOMATOPOEIA

• Words used to describe actions.
• Ex: "Boom" "Zap" "Pow"
• In the Movie Superman there is a lot of onomatopoeias when he was fighting.

IDOIM

• A phrase meant to mean something else, then what is not really said.
• "Don't bite the hand that feeds you," is an idiom.

MOOD

• The feeling the reader feels while reading the passage .
• The mood of the poem was happy!

NARRATIVE POEM

• A poem that tells a story and has a plot.
• I read a narrative poem in class today. It was about a man who was very sick.

SYMBOLISM

• Something that symbolizes something else
• The symbolism between the two sisters was amazing!

METAPHOR

• A phrase that compares two alike things without using "like" or "as"
• Literary device
• I used a metaphor to describe my dirty room.

ALLITERATION

• A phrase repeated of alike sounds or letters
• EX: Ally always enjoys eating apples.

REPETITOIN

• Is a simple repeating of a word in the poem.
• I used repetition to show how angry I really was.

IMAGERY

• The image the reader gets while reading the passage.
• When I read a poem about oceans, the imagery I saw was the beach.

PERSONIFICATION

• When human traits are given to none living things.
• EX: The Grass swayed in the wind.

SMILE

• To compare something using like or as.
• EX: My dog can jump as high as a frog on steroids.

HYPERBOLE

• An over exaggeration
• Usually my friends use hyperboles to describe how big the fish they caught was.