Poetry Terms

It means exactly what it says

• Literal language

• Synonym

• Figurative Language

• Metaphor

When you use a word or phrase that does NOT have its normal every day, literal meaning.

• Rhyme

• Literal Language

• Figurative Language

• Poetic Structure

When 2 or more words end in the same sound.

• Rhyme

• Literal Language

• Figurative Language

• Poetic Structure

A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".

• Stanza

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Simile

A comparison of two unlike things that does NOT include words "like" or "as".

• Stanza

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Simile

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are near each other in poetry or in writing.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Line

An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Line

Given human characteristics or traits to non-human things.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Line

A word that sounds like the sound it is describing

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

• metaphor

• alliteration

Two or more lines that group together.

• line

• stanza

• break

• onomatopoeia