Poetic Metalanguage

The use of stressed and unstressed syllables to create a beat in poetry

• Syllable

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Assonance

A comparison that is made using the words 'as' or 'like'

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

The repetition of similar sounding words for effect

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• rhyme

The repetition of a vowel sound

• alliteration

• assonance

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Words which are chosen to present a positive or negative view

• evaluative language

• imagery

• verbs

• nouns

The repetition of a consonant sound

A comparison where one thing is said to be another

Descriptive language using the senses to paint a picture in the reader's mind

When non-human things are described as having human qualitities

Words that sound like the noise they are describing