Grade 12 Poetry Terms

speaker - answer-the narrator of a poem stanza - answer-a group of lines arranged together couplet - answer-a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse rhythm - answer-a pattern recurring at regular intervals, can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain, meter - answer-a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables free verse - answer-no repeating patterns of syllables, no rhyme, conversational, modern end rhyme - answer-a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line internal rhyme - answer-a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line approximate rhyme - answer-rhyme in which the final sounds of words are similar but not identical. Also known as slant rhyme, imperfect rhyme, close rhyme, near rhyme, rhyme scheme - answer-a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always); this pattern is shown with letters onomatopoeia - answer-words that imitate the sound they name alliteration - answer-consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words consonance - answer-a type of alliteration in which the repeated consonant sounds are anywhere in the words assonance - answer-the repetition of vowel sounds refrain - answer-a sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem simile - answer-a comparison of two things using as or like metaphor - answer-a direct comparison of two unlike things extended metaphor - answer-a metaphor that goes several lines or possibly the entire length of the work implied metaphor - answer-a comparison is hinted at but not clearly stated hyperbole - answer-exaggeration often used for emphasis personification - answer-a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes symbolism - answer-a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents something else