Poetry Vocabulary

A comparison of two unlike things that say one thing is another.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A comparison of two things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Giving human qualities to non-living things.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A group of words whose meaning isn’t understood from the literal meaning.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

An exaggeration that can’t possibly be true.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

A reference to a famous person, place, or event.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Idiom

Phrases or words that express a different meaning than the literal one.

• Narrative Poem

• Lyrical Poem

• Literal Meaning

• Figurative Meaning

The repetition of the same initial (beginning) consonant sound.

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Alliteration

The action of repeating something that has

already been said or written.

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Words whose sound suggest their meaning.

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration