Poetry Term Review

the repetition of consonant sounds like in "sally sells sea shells by the sea shore"

• rhythm

• assonance

• alliteration

• rhyme

a group of lines in a poem

• stanza

• line

• paragraph

• block

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• refrain

a beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables in words

• rhyme

• rhythm

• imagery

• refrain

words that imitate the sounds to which they refer

• omnivorous

• onomatopoeia

• omnipresent

• octagon

the literal dictionary definition of a word

• connotation

• alliteration

• assonance

• denotation

language NOT meant to be taken literally

• alliteration

• fancy language

• figurative language

• a joke

the ideas and feelings associated with a word

• denotation

• connotation

• imagery

• metaphor

a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• personificarion

giving a non-living thing human or animal characteristics

• hyperbole

• personification

• peoplization

• metaphor