Poetry Terms

A sound device used in poetry, it is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds.

Ex: Peter Piper Picked a Pickled Pepper

or

Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Assonance

A comparison between two unlike things by saying one thing IS something else.

Ex:

Her eyes were green emeralds.

• repetition

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Visual features that are part of a poem's structure and can influence a poem's meaning

• Graphical Elements

• Tone

• Mood

• Personification

A comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as

He was as fast as a cheetah.

• None of these

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

When words rhyme on the same line in a poem

Example:

Was it bitten by a kitten? On a boggy and soggy log?

• Internal Rhyme

• External Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

• Repetition

Words whose sound suggest their meaning

Ex: Boom! Bam! Woof!

• Tone

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Consonance

An exaggeration used for effect; an extreme exaggeration

Ex: I could eat a horse.

I'm so thirsty I could die.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

A sound device used in poetry but this is the repetition of a vowel sound in neighboring words.

Ex:

Go slow over the long narrow road.

• assonance

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• internal rhyme

Giving human qualities to non-living things.

Ex:

The moonlight danced across the ocean.

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• assonance

A group of lines in a poem

• Stanza

• Personification

• Theme

• Speaker