Poetry Terms

What is repetition?

• words that are used to create an image or suggest an idea

• use of words that begin with the same beginning sound

• a poetic device in which a phrase, word or sound is repeated for emphasis

• a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"

What is literal language?

• words that are used to create an image or suggest an idea

• words that are used to mean exactly what they say

• a poetic device in which a phrase, word or sound is repeated

• an extreme exaggeration

A type of figurative language in which human traits are assigned to nonhuman objects

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

What is a metaphor?

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• an extreme exaggeration

• a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

• words that are used to create an image

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor

• repetition

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

The use of words that begin with the same beginning sound near one another.

• repetition

• literal language

• alliteration

• simile

What is a simile?

• Figurative language that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• words that used to create an image or suggest an idea

• extreme exaggeration

• Figurative language that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

What is figurative language?

• The use of words that begin with the same sound.

• A type of figurative language in which human traits are assigned to nonhuman objects.

• Words that are used to create an image or suggest an idea.

• Words that are used to mean exactly

What is rhyme scheme?

• physical structure of the poem

• a group of lines forming a section of a poem

• the pattern of end rhymes

• poetic device in which the last syllable of a line rhymes with the last syllable of another line

A poetic device in which the last syllable of a line rhymes with the last syllable of another line

• end rhyme

• stanza

• line

• rhyme scheme