Poetry Vocabulary
Connotation: Emotional impact attached to words beyond their literal meaning.
Paraphrase: Putting something into your own words. In poetry, you lose the musical quality and rhyme
Prose: The ordinary form of written language. Everyday speech.
*Personification: Giving human qualities or characteristics to inanimate objects or animals.
Narrative poem: A poem that tells a story in poetic form. Contains plot, setting, characters, etc. Relies on rhythm and rhyme. Organized in stanzas.
Stanzas: Groups of lines that form units in a poem.
Ballad: A Narrative poem that tells a simple and dramatic story. Intended to be sung or recited. Has strong rhythms and rhymes.
*Juxtaposition: The placing of two images or ideas side by side allowing the reader to make the comparison. Not a direct comparison.
Rhythm: A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem. Usually contributes to meaning.
