Poetry Terms to Know

A comparison between two unlike things using “like," "as," "than," or "resembles."

• symbolism

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Patterns of words that sound the same

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Giving an object human-like qualities

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Anthropomorphization

• Hyperbole

The use of very descriptive, sensory language

• Irony

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Symbol

A group of lines arranged together

• Form

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Stanza

The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Identify the literary device underlined in the following:

“I’m getting married in the morning!

Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Rhyme

Identify the literary device underlined in the following:

“I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Idiom

Which of the following is an example of assonance?

• Fair is foul and foul is fair.

• The moose and the goose are loose.

• I could nap for three weeks.

• I do not have a green thumb.

Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

• Fair is foul and foul is fair.

• The moose and the goose are loose.

• I could nap for three weeks.

• I do not have a green thumb.