An idea or opinion produced 

by thinking or occurring 

suddenly in mind 

Visual description or 

figurative language, 

in literary work 

Simile 

Word or phrase applied to 

object or action to which not 

literary applicable 

Personfication 

Giving a human 

characteristic to 

something nonhuman 

Represents something 

else; Winter represents 

death 

Connotation 

Emotional suggestion 

carried by a word 

Denotation 

Literal or 

primary meaning 

Literal Meaning 

Distinction in traditional 

systems for analyzing 

language 

Figurative Meaning 

Associative or 

connotative meaning 

representational 

Tone 

Writers attitude 

toward material or 

readers

Melody 

Poem suitable for 

setting to music or 

singing 

Rhyme 

Poem or verse having 

correspondence of 

sounds 

Words that are 

spelled and sound 

the same 

Slant Rhyme 

(Approximate) 

Two words that have only 

final consonant sounds and 

no perceding vowel or 

consonant sounds in common 

End Rhyme 

Rhyme occurring in 

last syllables of 

verses 

Internal 

Rhyme 

Rhyme occurs in 

single line of verse 

Occurrence of same 

letter at beginning 

 is the repetition of 

vowel sounds in words that 

are close to each other 

Recurrence if 

similar sounds 

Rhythm Regular pattern of 

movement or sound 

Monometer

The measured arrangement of 

words in poetry, as by accentual 

rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the 

number of syllables in a line. 

Foot 

A unit of poetic meter 

consisting of stressed and 

unstressed syllables in any of 

various set combinations. 

What are three (3) 

reasons for using  Rhyme and alliteration?

Make certain words stand out in 

line, Make lines complete in

meaning, and slow poem down to 

tend to get the readers attention

Pose is written in sentences,

Prose is not a song, Poetry 

can be a song

In what ways are poetry and 

 weight training alike?

Reference writer 

wants reader to find 

out during a poem. 

Iambic 

has an unstressed 

followed by a 

stressed syllable.

Trochaic 

A metrical foot consisting of a 

stressed syllable followed by 

an unstressed syllable, 

A metrical foot consisting of 

one accented syllable 

followed by two unaccented 

metrical foot composed 

of two short syllables 

followed by one long one, 

Repeated line of 

number of lines in 

poem or song 

 Poetry that 

corresponds in grammatical structure 

Blank Verse

 Verse without 

rhyme 

 Group of lines forming 

basic recurring metric 

unit in a poem 

Shakespearean 

Sonnet (Quatrain and 

Couplet) 

Italian couplet that 

has 3 quatrain 

followed by a couplet 

Petrarchan Sonnet 

(Octave and Sestet) 

Consisting of octave 

with rhyme Abbabba 

Rhyming 

Couplet 

Pair of lines of 

meter in poetry 

17 Syllables in 

3 lines of 5,7,5 

Concrete Poetry 

(Form Poetry) 

Typographical 

arrangement of 

words 

Formation of a 

word from sound