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Poetry Vocabulary 6th

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  • A poetry type that tells a story
    Narrative
  • Poetry type without a lot of rules
    Free Verse
  • Japanese poetry metered in syllables
    Haiku
  • When a sound or word is repeated in a poem
    Repetition
  • Word choice that shows the author's attitude towards the topic
    Tone
  • Which poetic device makes the sound that is its name?
    Onomatopoeia
  • Poetry type that has deep meaning or would make a good song
    Lyrical
  • A silly, rhyming poem about a person or animal in five lines
    Limerick
  • A figure of speech that gives a non-human thing human traits
    Personification
  • The literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word is ____________.
    Denotation
  • A smaller section of several lines of verse in a poem
    Stanza
  • A figure of speech that compares two unlike things
    Metaphor
  • A figure of speech that exaggerates
    Hyperbole
  • Word choice that relates to sound, sight, touch, taste, smell
    Sensory Language
  • Word choice that makes the reader feel emotion
    Mood
  • A figure of speech that uses like or as
    Simile