Poetry Review

language that appeals to our senses

• simile

• personification

• connotation

• imagery

comparison between two unlike things without the use of the words like or as

• rhythm

• metaphor

• simile

• syllables

human qualities are given to something that is not human

• personification

• approximate rhymes

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

implies or suggests the comparison between two things without saying it directly

• assonance

• implied metaphor

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as

• connotation

• implied metaphor

• metaphor

• simile

association and emotion that words have attached to them

• imagery

• denotation

• connotation

• approximate rhymes

repetition of the sound of the vowel and any sounds that follow it

• approximate rhyme

• rhythm

• rhyme

• assonance

a regular pattern of end rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• syllables

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm

words that repeat some sounds but are not exact rhymes

• approximate rhymes

• rhythm

• rhymes

• rhyme scheme

a musical quality based on repetition

• rhythm

• rhyme

• syllables

• assonance