Poetry terms

The repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in a phrase or line of poetry is called...

• repetition

• stanza

• alliteration

• simile

An expression of ideas or feeling in words, usually having a form, rhythm and rhyme is called...

• poetry

• personification

• metaphor

• rhyme

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

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

Two or more lines with rhyming words is called...

• stanza

• rhyme

• metaphor

• repetition

The author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind is called...

• imagery

• personification

• rhyming words

• alliteration

A sound device in which a word makes the sound is called...

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• poetry

The comparison of two things in which one is said to be another is called...

• simile

• rhyming words

• metaphor

• stanza

A sound device in which sounds, words or phrases are repeated to emphasize a point is called...

• repetition

• alliteration

• rhyme

• imagery

Words that end in the same sounds is called...

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• poetry

A poem that is shaped like a diamond, and the words describe opposite ideas is called a...

• limerick

• ballad

• diamante

• sonnet