Personal and Cultural Identity
Other Poetic Literary Terms
Poetry Literary Terms
Read through this list of terms. You should know these in order to best respond to literature. If you need to look up definitions and/or examples. This is a good website.
- alliteration
- allusion
- assonance
- ballad
- blank verse
- consonance
- couplet
- dissonance
- free verse
- hyperbole
- iambic pentameter
- imagery
- lyric poem
- narrative poem
- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron
- personification
- quatrain
- rhyme scheme
- rhythm
- simile
- sonnet
- stanza
- symbolism
Try this Poetry Vocabulary Match. Check your answers with the accompanying answer key.
Then you can practice your knowledge with some online poetry quizzes.