Rhyme’s Reason: Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory

If you want to be well-versed in poetry, review this vocabulary list. Learn about parts of a poem, genres of poetry, literary devices, rhyme and meter, and more. This list is truly poetry in motion!
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  1. accent
    the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note
  2. acrostic
    verse in which the first letter in each line forms a message
  3. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  4. anagram
    a phrase rearranged from the letters of another phrase
  5. figurative
    not literal
  6. form
    an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
  7. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  8. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  9. line
    a row of text written across a page or computer screen
  10. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  11. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  12. mood
    the prevailing psychological state
  13. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  14. poem
    a composition in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
  15. poet
    a writer of verse consisting of lines that often rhyme
  16. refrain
    part of a song or poem that recurs at regular intervals
  17. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  18. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  19. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  20. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  21. stress
    the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note
  22. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  23. verse
    literature in metrical form
Created on Tue Jan 17 13:58:15 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:57:55 EDT 2017)

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