Poetry Tools

What is Alliteration?

• An exaggeration or overstatement.

• A person, a place, a thing, or an event used to represent something else.

• Repeating the same beginning sound.

• the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning

What is a Metaphor?

• When the rhyming words occur in the same line of poetry.

• Comparing two unlike things using the word “is.”

• Repeating vowel sounds

• A literary device in which the author speaks of or describes an animal, object, or idea, as if it were a person

What is Rhyme?

• The beat and movement of language

• How the rhymes are organized in the poem.

• Words that sound alike, usually words that end in the same sound.

What is a Onomatopoeia

• Repeating vowel sounds

• Repeating consonant sounds

• An exaggeration or overstatement.

• the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning

• A person, a place, a thing, or an event used to represent something else.

What is Hyperbole?

• Repeating vowel sounds

• Repeating consonant sounds

• An exaggeration or overstatement.

• the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning

• A person, a place, a thing, or an event used to represent something else.

What is Personification?

• A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.

• A literary device in which the author speaks of or describes an animal, object, or idea, as if it were a person

• When the rhyming words occur in the same line of poetry.

• A comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison (like or as) is used

What is a Simile?

• A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.

• A literary device in which the author speaks of or describes an animal, object, or idea, as if it were a person

• When the rhyming words occur in the same line of poetry.

• A comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison (like or as) is used

What is Rhythm?

• The beat and movement of language

• How the rhymes are organized in the poem.

• Words that sound alike, usually words that end in the same sound.

What is Rhyme?

• The beat and movement of language

• How the rhymes are organized in the poem.

• Words that sound alike, usually words that end in the same sound.

Ex: The crocodile's teeth are white daggers.

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
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