Poetry Vocabulary

An expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the meanings of the individual words composing it.

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

Two words in the same line with the same starting sound.

A figure of speech that compares unlike things in order to suggest a similarity.

Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression if fellings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

Two or more words that match the same sound (Poetry) a verse or piece having corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines.

The arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables.

The feeling of the reader through writing.

Choice and use of words in speech or writing.

An arrangement of a certain number of lines, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme, forming a division of a poem.

The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.

A line is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided.