Poetry Review

the feeling the reader gets from a poem

• stanza
• tone
• mood
• metaphor

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration
• imagery
• onomatopoeia
• theme

a word that imitates a sound

• mood
• simile
• allusion
• onomatopoeia

a group of lines in a poem

• personification
• stanza
• imagery
• allusion

the life lesson/message of the poem

• tone
• mood
• theme
• speaker

giving human-like qualities to something non-human

• personification
• allusion
• imagery
• theme

words that appeal to the five senses

• metaphor
• theme
• personification
• imagery

reference to a famous person, place or event

• alliteration
• tone
• onomatopoeia
• allusion

a comparison between two unlike things using "as" or "like"

• tone
• simile
• metaphor
• mood

the author's attitude toward the poem's subject

• mood
• tone
• theme
• speaker