Poetry Terms Review

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Theme

The repetition of vowel sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Theme

• Personification

Words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses or any combination of senses

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Tone

• Meter

A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison

• Simile

• Comparison

• Metaphor

• Imagery

A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abilities

• Stanza

• Rhyme

• Personifcation

• Point of View

The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas

• Simile

• Personification

• Repetition

• Meter

The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Point of View

• Simile

A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than"

• Personification

• Meter

• Metaphor

• Simile

A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Stanza

a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly. It is left to the audience to make the direct connection.

• Meter

• Theme

• Allusion

• Personification