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| matching sounds at the START of words |
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| matching vowel sounds in words |
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| long poem that tells a story, in rhyme with a particular rhyme scheme and metre. Often set to music |
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| unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter. The way Shakespeare's characters talk |
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| words in poem create a shape that adds to its meaning |
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| matching consonants sounds (anywhere) in words |
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| poem without any pattern rhyme, metre or number of lines |
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| an exaggeration for effect |
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| a unit of metre, with one unstressed and one stressed syllable |
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| vivid a description that appeals to all 5 senses |
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| words that rhyme within the same line of poetry |
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| an indirect comparison between two unlike objects, stating that one object is other |
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| a figure of speech where a word is replaced by a word closely associated with it. Ex. The Crown will prosecute him |
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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
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| a poem that tells a story, with plot, characters and a setting |
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| words that make the sound they describe when you say them out loud, such as buzz, crash, or shush |
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| a voice taken on by the speaker in a poem. May be of another person or of an inanimate object or idea |
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| a figure of speech where human qualities are given to non - human objects or ideas |
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| matching sounds at the ENDS of words |
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| the pattern of rhyme in the lines of a poem, marked with letters (ABC) to show which lines rhyme with each other |
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| a direct comparison between two unlike objects, usually using the words 'like' or 'as' |
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| a 14 - line poem with a strict rhyme scheme and metre, usually about feelings or nature |
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| a group of lines separated from other groups by blank line -- the 'paragraph' of poetry |
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| a figure of speech where part of the object is used to describe the entire object or vice versa |
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