AP Lit Poetry Terms

Our feet squished in the mud.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• apostrophe

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"Victoria vrooms in the van very vivaciously."

• assonance

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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personification

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

• The sun is like a light bulb.

• The Sun smiled at us.

• "A wild wind awoke in the world without." - Beowulf

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personification

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

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metaphor

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A comparison not using like or as

• Words that are sounds

• A comparison using like or as

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imagery

• An exaggeration

• A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses

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simile

• A comparison using like or as

• A comparison not using like or as

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

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When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• rhyme

several words begin with the same consonant sound in a row

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

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What is repetition?

• Repeating the beginning sounds of words
• Retelling what the poem was about
• Repeating words, lines, or stanzas in a poem for emphasis
• A pattern of rhyme in a poem

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