Poetry Terms

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Theme

Words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses or any combination of senses

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Tone

• Mood

A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them without using the words "like" or "as" to compare the two objects.

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Comparison

• Imagery

The use of words which imitate its sound

• Metaphor

• Interjection

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abilities

• Stanza

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Point of View

The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Point of View

• Simile

A comparison between two objects using "like" or "as" to compare the two objects.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Meter

• Simile

A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Stanza

A phrase or an expression (sometimes called figure of speech) that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. EX. “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Stanza

"The clock stood up and walked off the wall" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile