ELA Terms (Poetry, Figurative Language, Sound Devices, etc.)

a group of lines in a poem; a verse

• rhyme scheme

• stanza

• lines

• paragraph

a pattern of rhyming words in a poem (Ex. AABBA)

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration

• stanza

• repetition

the beat of a poem

• rhyme scheme

• stanza

• repetition

• rhythm or meter

a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• symbolism

a comparison of two unlike things often made by saying one thing is another; Ex. Education is your key to success.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

writing that appeals to the reader's senses and creates pictures in the reader's mind

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

a phrase that means something completely different than what it actually says

• oxymoron

• idiom

• hyperbole

• imagery

one thing that stands for or represents something else

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• symbolism

over exaggeration

• simle

• hyperbole

• personification

• imagery