Poetry Vocabulary 10/30

A description created through the use of the five senses

• metaphor

• imagery

• sonnet

• simile

A form of wordplay that uses multiple meanings of a word or phrase for a humorous effect

• sonnet

• hyperbole

• puns

• limerick

An expression that does not literally mean what the word say

• idioms

• imagery

• ballad

• hyperbole

a proverb, or saying that expresses a truth

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• haiku

• adage

five line stanza (hint: starts with a "c")

• limerick

• cinquain

• puns

• alliteration

humorous verse of three long and two short lines rhyming "aabba" style

• sonnet

• limerick

• haiku

• personification

Poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

• ballad

• puns

• simile

• alliteration

A comparison using like or as

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables

• ballad

• sonnet

• adage

• haiku

A diamond shaped poem

• limerick

• pun

• diamante

• simile