Poetry Terms and Devices

Definition: Rhyme

• A word or phase used over and over again.

• The sound of the end of a word

• The repetition of a sound in two or more words

• Words used to imitate sounds.

A series of word with the same beginning sound

• Rhythm

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Smile

using the five senses to help the reader experience the way things taste,smell, and feel

• free verse

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• imagery

poetry free from any fixed or repeated patterns

• free verse

• figurative language

• onomatopoeia

• smile

a comparison using like or as

• metaphor

• smile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Giving non human objects people qualities or traits

• humanifacation

• rhyme

• narrative poem

• personifacation

A poem that tells a story.

• haiku

• narrative poem

• smile

• poem

comparison of two things unlike not using like or as.

• smile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

an exaggeration

• ryhme

• smile

• free verse

• hyperbole

going beyond the literal meaning of words in order to achieve an effect by using metaphor, smile, irony, personification, etc

• figurative language

• smile

• narrative poem

• sarcasm