📜Poetry Vocabulary Study Set

surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions; when the opposite of what you would expect to happen happens

• irony
• alliteration
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• simile

use of words that mimic sounds

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• idiom
• irony
• simile

repetition of first consonant sound

• alliteration
• idiom
• irony
• onomatopoeia
• simile

comparison between two unrelated things using like and as

• simile
• alliteration
• idiom
• irony
• onomatopoeia

an expression that has a meaning beyond the actual definition of the words

• idiom
• alliteration
• irony
• onomatopoeia
• simile

comparison between 2 unlike ideas/object

• metaphor
• alliteration
• idiom
• irony
• onomatopoeia

giving human characteristics to objects, animals, or ideas

• personification
• meter
• imagery
• hyperbole
• assonance

ridiculous exaggeration to make a point

• hyperbole
• personification
• meter
• imagery
• assonance

descriptions that create a picture in the mind

• imagery
• personification
• meter
• hyperbole
• assonance

regular rhythm of a poem

• meter
• personification
• imagery
• hyperbole
• assonance