poetry elements

comparing two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• theme

• rhyme

A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• Tone

• Stanza

• Meter

• Rhythm

The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• alliteration

• personification

• rhyme scheme

• repetition

Words that end in the same sound; end rhyme

• rhyme

• rhythm

• repetition

• meter

when a word sounds like the noise it describes.

• tone

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Giving things that are not human the personalities and actions of humans.

• personification

• alliteration

• tone

• metaphor

comparing two things without using as or like

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

repeating the same words

• Onomatopoeia

• repetition

• simile

• metaphor