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Any writing that uses words for their sound and rhythm as well as their meaning. It usually emphasizes artistic elements like rhythm, rhyme, and repetition.
Poetry
Ordinary writing, like you’d find in a textbook, newspaper article, or novel. It expresses ideas in simple, direct language.
Prose
A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops one idea.
Stanza
An important idea in a text that focuses on the deeper meaning or message the reader is meant to consider.
Theme
The repetition of similar sounds.
Rhyme
"To repeat" something. It is the use of any element of language- a sound, word, phrase, or sentence- more than once.
Repetition
The feeling created in the reader by a poem or story using words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration.
Mood
The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.
Tone
Language that appeals to the five senses- touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight.
Imagery
Made up of all the tools that a poet uses to create a special effect of feeling. Includes metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia.
Figurative Language
A direct comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use the words like or as.
Metaphor
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point
Hyperbole
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of several words of a line or poetry or a sentence.
Alliteration
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
Simile
A common phrase made up of words that can't be understood by their literal, or ordinary, meanings.
Idiom
The use of words that sound like the noises they describe.
Onomatopoeia
