Poetry Terms

The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of poetry.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

Exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

• rhyme

When words create a sensory experience using the five senses. The words paint a picture that appeals to your senses.

• simile

• internal rhyme

• hyperbole

• imagery

The repetition of sounds at the end of words.

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• internal rhyme

• metaphor

Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry.

• internal rhyme

• rhyming couplet

• rhyme

• repetition

A two line stanza in poetry, which tend to have lines of equal length and the last word of each line rhymes with the other line.

• personification

• repetition

• internal rhyme

• rhyming couplet

The emotional quality of the poem. The feeling created by the poem.

• simile

• tone

• mood

• imagery

The writer’s attitude towards his/her subject. 

The tone may be playful, serious, happy…

• tone

• mood

• rhyme

• imagery

The same words or phrases are repeated a few times to make an idea clearer.

• rhyme

• repetition

• metaphor

• simile

A comparison of two things, connected by the words like or as.

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• hyperbole