Poetry Vocabulary

definition for Alliteration

• the musical quality of a poem

• The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words.

• a deliberate exaggeration

• sound words

Definition for Rhyme

• Sound words

• words that end in the same sound

• the pattern of rhymes

Definition for Metaphor

• a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• words that end in the same sound

• sound words

Definition for Simile

• the pattern or rhymes

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

Definition for Stanza

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• the pattern of rhymes

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Definition for Personification

• the musical quality of a poem

• giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of humans

• the pattern of rhymes

Definition for Onomatopoeia

• sound words

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• the pattern of rhymes

Definition for Hyperbole

• a deliberate exaggeration

• the musical quality of a poem

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

How is a poem arrange, or a group of lines in a poem?

• stanzas

• lyrical

• metaphor

• lines

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• simile

• onomatopoeia

• lines

• hyperbole