Poetry Terms review

words that end in the same sounds

• rhyme

• stanza

• poetry

• rhyme scheme

when human qualities and ideas are given to things

• imagery

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

a sound device in which sounds, words, or phrases are repeated to emphasize a point

• metaphor

• repetition

• simile

• alliteration

the comparison of two things in which one is said to be another Example: The student was an angel.

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

• simile

• metaphor

a sound device in which a word makes the sound

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• rhyme

the author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind

• repetition

• personification

• imagery

• rhyming words

two or more lines that end with rhyming words

• poetry

• repetition

• alliteration

• rhyme

the comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

an expression of ideas or feelings in words, usually having a form, rhythm, and rhyme

• poetry

• alliteration

• repetition

• rhyme

the repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in a phrase or line of poetry Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia