Poetry Terms

A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• symbolism

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Compares two unlike things by speaking of one thing as if it were another

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

• personification

• symbolism

• hyperbole

• allusion

A figure of speech where exaggeration is used for effect.

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• stanza

• onomatopoeia

A group of lines in a poem is called a

• stanza

• paragraph

• line break

• form

The repetition of initial consonant sounds: Susie sold sea shells down by the seashore .

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• Allusion
• Free Verse
• Rhythm
• Enjambment

When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Assonance

A figure of speech which gives animals, ideas, or inanimate

objects human traits or abilities

• Stanza

• Rhyme

• Personifcation

• Point of View

What is a rhyme scheme?

• The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

• A way to defeat a poet

• The beat of a poem

• The rhythm of a poem