poetry vocab

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• Allusion
• Symbolism
• Imagery
• Irony

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

• Oxymoron
• Symbolism
• Imagery
• Personification

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• Onomatopoeia
• Imagery
• Satire
• Allusion

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Allusion

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Metaphor

Giving human traits to non-living things.

• Irony
• Alliteration
• Tone
• Personification

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Imagery
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Metaphor

When two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. A combination of two contradictory or opposite words.

• Irony
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Oxymoron

When words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.

• Irony
• Satire
• Allusion
• Metaphor

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

• Onomatopoeia
• Symbolism
• Alliteration
• Simile