A word that sounds like what it means.
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.
Assonance
The author’s specific word choice
Diction
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
Rhythm
A story/narrative in poetic form.
Ballad
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art
Allusion
A single line of poetry.
Verse
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.”
Metaphor or...
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader
Theme
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line
Meter
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Free Verse
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Stanza
The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc
Tone
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
Enjambment
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
Symbol
The example of the image is an...?
Meter
In the image, is an example of...?
Stanza