Poetry Review 2022

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• imagery

• tone

• shift

• inference

When an author mentions the same word or phrase over and over, it is called...

• rhyme

• repetition

• simile

• metaphor

Giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

A comparison between two unlike things, using the words like or as

• hyperbole

• inference

• simile

• metaphor

A comparison of two unlike things, WITHOUT using the words like or as

• metaphor

• repetition

• simile

• hyperbole

Language not meant to be taken literally. Similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole are all types of this.

• inference

• figurative language

• archaic language

• hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

A poem paragraph; lines of poetry grouped together

• lines

• simile

• stanza

• connotation

The voice that talks to the reader in a poem

• stanza

• rhyme

• personification

• speaker

The emotional meaning of a word; all the ideas it reminds you of

• simile

• shift

• hyperbole

• connotation