poetry term quiz

language that cannot be interpreted literally

• academic language

• simple langage

• figurative language

• complicated language

a comparison using "like" or "as"

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

repeated sound pattern in poetry; the beat

• rhyme

• rhythm

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration

sensory language; paints a picture

• imagery

• sensory picture

• personifcation

• figurative language

divisions of a poem

• elegies

• modified paragraph

• stanza

• poetic break

a comparison where you suggest one thing is another

• simile

• labeling

• poetic comparison

• metaphor

narrates the poem

• outside narrator

• literary narrator

• speaker

• host

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginninig of words

• imagery

• lyric

• assonance

• alliteration

giving human qualities to non human things

• figurative langage

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

poem that tells a tragic story

• elegy

• lyric

• ballad

• epic