Poem Vocabulary

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• Assonance

• Allitaration

• Consonence

• Alliteration

Oxymoron

• An idea that is implied or suggested

• Not literal

• A figure of speech joining two things that contradict one another

• using words that imitate the sound they denote

1. 1. A position from which things are perceived
2. 2. The narrator's position in relation to the story that is being told

• Narrator

• Point of view

• Pun

• Simile

A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things using "like" and "as"

• Consonance

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

Personifacation

• comparison that does not use "like" or "as"

• the repetition of similar vowels in successive words

• Theme

• Attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• Rhyme

• Piggys

Comparison that doesn't use "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Ballad

Assonance

• Incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs

• When two words are put together and contradict one another

• The repetition of similar vowels in successive words

• When pigs fly

A person who tells a story

• cliche

• narrator

• hyperbole

• ressonance

The property of sounding harmonious

• Connotation

• Consonance

• Callisation

• Donaly