Poetry Test Review

Descriptive words that create a picture in the reader's mind

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

Repetition of beginning sounds of words

• Alliteration

• Theme

• Simile

• Imagery

The comparison between two unlike things using like or as

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Theme

The overall message of the poem

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Theme

A comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or a; stating that something IS something else

• Simile

• Theme

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

An exaggeration for effect

• Extended Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Topic

• Personification

The main subject of a poem

• Repetition

• Extended Metaphor

• Personification

• Topic

Giving human qualities to non-human animal, object or idea

• Repetition

• Extended Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

When a word or phrase is used more than once for emphasis

• Theme

• Imagery

• Topic

• Repetition

A metaphor that carries the comparison through several lines or though out an entire poem

• Stanza

• Extended Metaphor

• Simile

• Rhyme