Poetry Revision

When words start with the same letter

• assonance

• ambiguity

• alliteration

• technique

Language that creates a picture in your mind

• sibilance

• emotive

• enjambment

• imagery

Atmosphere or feeling

• simile

• mood

• irony

• narrative

A word that sounds like the thing it describes

• enjambment

• simile

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• onomatopoeia

• zoomorphism

• personification

• metaphor

The pattern of sounds created by stressing syllables

• rhythm

• rhyme

• sibilance

• imagery

Saying something is 'like' or 'as' something else

• mood

• metaphor

• simile

• sibilance

Words that share the same vowel sound

• alliteration

• metaphor

• rhyme

• assonance

Describing something as being something else

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• enjambment

Imagery is...

• language which helps the reader visualise what is happening

• an object, colour or action that has a deeper meaning to it

• the repetition of the initial consonant

• language that evokes the senses