Love That Dog Poetry Vocabulary

What helps you form mental pictures and uses the 5 senses?

• personification

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

What is the likeness in the sound at the end of words called?

• rhyme

• stanza

• line

• hyperbole

What compares things using the words 'like' or 'as'?

• metaphor

• simile

What compares things without using the words 'like' or 'as'?

• metaphor

• simile

This type of poem is commonly called a tongue twister - it uses the same letter or sound at the beginning of words.

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

When a word or phrase is repeated

• personification

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

The act of giving an inanimate object human-like features

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• onomatopoeia

an exaggeration - I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!

• repetition

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

• line

• title

• stanza

• rhyme