Poetry Vocabulary Review

The arrangement of lines into groups, separated by an empty line - similar to verse or paragraphs.

• Stanza

• Alliteration

• Quatrain

• Anaphora

A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlikely things.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Couplet

• Personification

A comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words "like or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Tercet

• Hyperbole

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or abstract idea.

• Personification

• Couplet

• Pun

• Oxymoron

An exaggerated statement used to emphasize an idea or make a point.

• Octave

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

A 'softer' more inoffensive word or phrase, used as a substitute for one considered too harsh when referring to something unpleasant.

• Consonance

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Euphemism

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part.

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

A play on words; can be on different meanings of the same word or on similar sense or sound of different words.

• Quatrain

• Simile

• Synecdoche

• Pun

When incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

• Couplet

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

• Anaphora

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Alliteration