Poetry Terms and Examples

A figure of speech and form of irony in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

To give human traits and characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A comparison of two unlike things that are basically unalike but do share some qualities in common.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

“Shine bright like a diamond”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

"Dancing daffodils, the grass bowed to the wind"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

"I would walk a million miles to be at your side"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The Following is an example of which Poetry Device:

"The stars in her eyes"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyming Couplet

• Rhyme Scheme

A pattern of end rhymes (words at the end of a line) in a poem.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyming Couplet

• Rhyme Scheme