Poetry and Figurative Language Vocab

A group of lines in a poem

• Stanza

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

The repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in phrase or line of poetry

• Rhyming Words

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

The author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind

• Personification

• Imagery

• Stanza

A sound device in which sounds, words, or phrases are repeated to emphasize a point

• Imagery

• Simile

• Repetition

Words that end in the same sound

• Alliteration

• Rhyming Words

• Metaphor

An expression of ideas or feelings in words, usually having a form, rhythm, and rhyme.

• Poetry

• Personification

• Rhyme

A word used to show sound

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

two or more lines that end with rhyming words

• Imagery

• Poetry

• Rhyme

the comparison of two things, saying one thing IS/WAS another

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words LIKE or AS

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile