Poetry - Review

Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses. *

• meter

• stanza

• simile

• imagery

The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words

• rhyme

• simile

• rhythm

• stress

A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme.

• verse

• chorus

• stanza

• simile

A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than".

• metaphor

• analogy

• personification

• simile

an implied comparison in which words/characteristics that are ordinarily applied to one thing are applied to another

• metaphor

• metnoymy

• simile

• analogy

The use of words which imitate sound.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• consonance

When different lines have the same or a similar repeated structure

• syntax

• exaggeration

• parallelism

• repetition

The repetition of similar vowel sounds

• alliteration

• sibilance

• consonance

• assonance

The speaker, or "teller", of the poem.

• protagonist

• persona

• personification

• singer

The repetition of initial sounds.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• sibilance