New Year Poetry Analysis Glossary

Alliteration can be defined as:

• an extreme exaggeration

• a group of lines in the poem

• two lines of verse that form a unit

• the repetition of consonant sounds

The word assonance can be defined as:

• the repetition of vowel sounds

• visual description allowing readers to picture the poet's words

• Comparing two unlike things

• Giving a nonhuman object human characteristics

A couplet can be defined as:

• sounds that represent the sound they make

• two lines of verse that form a unit

• an extreme exaggeration

• a repetition of words or phrases for effect

A hyperbole can best be defined as:

• giving a nonhuman object human characteristics

• the comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• two lines of verse that form a unit

The term, imagery, can best be defined as:

• visual description allowing readers to picture the poet's words

• a pattern of rhyming used in a work labeled with consecutive letters of the alphabet starting with A

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• a break between lines providing white space on the page

In poetry a line break can be describe as:

• sounds that represent what they make

• two lines of a verse that form a unit

• the break between lines providing white space on the page

• a group of lines in a poem

A metaphor can be defined as:

• a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• the repetition of consonant sounds

Onomatopoeia can be defined as:

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• a repetition of words or phrases for effect

• sound words that represent the sound they make

• giving a nonhuman object human characteristics

Personification can be defined as:

• the repetition of vowel sounds

• an extreme exaggeration

• the repetition of words or phrases for effect

• Giving nonhuman object human characteristics

Rhyme scheme can be defined as:

• the pattern of rhyming used in a word labeled with consecutive letters of the alphabet starting with A. Words that rhyme are given the same letter.

• The repetition of words of phrases for effect.

• an extreme exaggeration

• the repetition of vowel sounds