Poem Terms Flashcards
(26 cards)
Poem
A complete text creating a strong feeling through meaning sound and rhythm
Lines
Rows of words in a poem not always following rules
Stanzas
Groups of lines set apart by spaces, structure of poem
Rhyme
Words with the same ending sound at the end of a line/sentence
Rhyme scheme
Abab
Rhythm
“Beat” of the poem.
Meter
Recurring pattern
Repetition
Repeating words or lines in poetry
Alliteration
Repetition of the first consonant sound
Peter pipers picked piles of pickled peppers
Simile
A comparison that uses like or as
Strong as an ox
Metaphor
A comparison that does not use like or as
Nearly
Personification
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
Symbolism
Using something to stand for something else
Allusion
A reference to another work
Point of view
Where or who the story is told from
Speaker
is like the narrator of a story
Theme
The main idea of a story/text
Lyric poem
Short poem, like a song
Ode
Poem that has two or more stanzas with similar structure
Haiku
Short poem with seventeen syllables in three lines. Usually about nature
Sonnet
Fourteen lines with ten to twelve syllables per line; first eight lines develop an idea, the last six question it
Tone
Mood the poem creates
Ballad
A short poem with stanzas of two to four lines and a refrain that repeats; tells a story
Free verse
Does not follow any rules of rhythm or rhyme
