7th Poetry Vocabulary

The repetition of the same or similar consonant sound at the beginning of words

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• rhyme

When an author uses exaggeration.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

The making of pictures with words

• imagery

• stanza

• speaker

• metaphor

Comparing two things by saying one is the other

• simile

• rhyme

• metaphor

• personification

Words that are used to imitate sounds

• hyperbole

• personification

• speaker

• onomatopoeia

When animals, ideas, or objects are given human qualities

• personification

• hyperbole

• imagery

• alliteration

The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words

• alliteration

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

The voice telling the poem

• stanza

• speaker

• rhyme

• author

Two or more lines of poetry that form a section of the poem

• stanza

• speaker

• simile

• imagery