TERMINOLOGY

WORDS ORGANIZED SO THERE IS A PATTERN OF RHYTHM, RHYME AND/OR MEANING

VOICE USED BY POET TO SPEAK A POEM

A LONG POEM THAT TELLS STORY IN RHYME

EXPERIMENTS WITH WORDS, LETTERS, FORMAT

MODERN POETRY THAT HAS NO REGULAR PATTERN OF RHYTHM, RHYME OR LINE LENGTH

IMAGINATIVE LANGUAGE (SIMILES, METAPHORS, PERSONIFICATION)

SHORTER POEMS OF INTENSE FEELING AND EMOTION

TELLS A STORY

FOURTEEN LINES IN IAMBIC PENTAMETER

REPEATED CONSTANT SOUNDS

SOUND LIKE WHAT THEY MEAN

DIRECT COMPARISON

NON-HUMAN GIVEN HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS

COMPARISON USING LIKE OR AS

REFERENCE TO ANOTHER PIECE OF LITERATURE

PHRASE THAT'S OVERUSED

UNWRITTEN ASSOCIATIONS MADE WITH A WORD

LITERAL MEANING OF WORD

EXAGGERATION

MENTAL PICTURE

CREATES PICTURE IN READER'S MIND

LITERAL MEANING; IGNORES IMAGINATION

EMOTION OF THE POEM

NARRATOR'S ATTITUDE

SINGLE WORD OPPOSITES SIDE BY SIDE

LARGE OXYMORON

REPEATED WODS,SOUNDS, PHARSES, OR STANZAS

REPRESENTS SOMETHING

OPPOSITE OF HYPERBOLE

TWO LINES OF POETRY THAT RHYME

EIGHT LINES OF POETRY WITH RHYME SCHEME

FOUR LINES WITH RHYME SCHEME

SIX LINES WITH RHYME SCHEME

PARAGRAPH OF WRITING IN POEM

ANOTHER WORD FOR VERSE PARAGRAPH

UNRHYMED IAMBIC PATTERN

LINE OF POETRY, TEN SYLLABLES

CHORUS OF A BALLAD. REPEATING SET OF WORDS OR LINES

SOUNDS MATCH AT END OF LINES

PATTERN OF RHYME IN POEM

PATTERN OF SOUND IN POEM