Poetry Vocabulary

Comparison of two things without using "like" or "as"

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom

The use of extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

the description of giving a nonhuman thing human characteristics or traits

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• metaphor

the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words

• repetition
• end rhyme
• simile
• alliteration

the sound is the meaning of the word

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• end rhyme
• idiom

the repeating of words or statements to emphasize a certain point

• alliteration
• simile
• repetition
• end rhyme

the rhyming of two words at the end of two lines in a poem

• hyperbole
• end rhyme
• idiom
• repetition

Her hands felt like ice

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• personification

He was taller than a skyscraper.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• idiom
• alliteration

Ally ate apples at lunch. 

• idiom
• repetition
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia