Poetry Passage

Use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger

• personification

• symbolism

• hyperbole

• allusion

A passage repeated at regular intervals with variations, usually in a poem or song

• refrain

• stanza

Repetition of the initial sounds or stressed syllables in words close together

• alliteration

• allusion

The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas used for emphasis in writing

• refrain

• repetition

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Use lowercase letters to identify the last word in each line.

• freeverse

• rhyme scheme

• refrain

• alliteration

The repetition in words of identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds.

• assonance

• consonance

Consonance is the repetition of the same consonant or consonant pattern two or more times in short succession.

• assonance

• consonance

A metaphor carried throughout the text

• allusion

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• symbolism

An implied or indirect reference to something the reader should recognize

• symbolism

• extended metaphor

• metaphor

• allusion

The act of talking while or as if alone, the character’s inner thoughts

Provides a reader with information not given to other characters

• soliloquy

• symbolism