1. or 4. POETRY Vocabulary 10

Poetry Literary Terms

1. narrative - a poem that tells a story, so it has a plot, characters, etc.
                      - also known as blank verse
2. dramatic - poetry that has characters speaking to each other, much like a play
3. simile or metaphor - comparing two unlike things; similes use "like," metaphors don't.
4. hyperbole - exaggerated speech
5. lyric - poems that are personal and confess something about the speaker
6. rhyme scheme - the pattern of rhymes in the poem
7. stanza - how a poem is broken up, like into paragraphs
8. form - the way the poem is created, whether it is free verse and doesn't rhyme or                is a sonnet, villanelle, sestina, haiku, etc.
9. refrain - repeated phrase or stanza in a poem
10. speaker - the narrator of a poem (not always the poet!)

Bonus: synechdoche - part for the whole, like "your wheels" represents your car