Poetry Terms

The following is an example of what?
Pitter patter

• Consonance

• Rhyme Scheme

• Slant Rhyme

• Symbol

What is this an example of?
I have 18 hours of homework tonight.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Assonance

• Parallel Structure

What is the following an example of?
The sun smiled down on me as I floated home from school after getting an A on my poetry quiz.

• Imagery

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Parallel Structure

Comparing two things without using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The following is an example of what?
That student is the Devil; she has thrown papers at others, tripped her teacher, and refuses to do any work.

• Metaphor

• Enjambment

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

A word that makes its sound

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme scheme

Beats in a line of poetry

(ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM)

• Metaphor

• Consonance

• Rhythm

• Parallel Structure

Two opposite words placed side by side

• Oxymoron

• Personsification

• Simile

• Symbol

Paragraphs of poetry

• Stanza

• Idiom

• Simile

• Assonance

The opposite meaning of what is intended

• Irony

• Rhyme scheme

• Enjambment

• Assonance