Poetry Review

Words that have the same or similar ending sounds

Riley is a funny boy

Each day he plays

With a new toy

• rhyme

• syllable

• metaphor

• alliteration

when two things that are different are compared to each other, usually using the words like or as

Her eyes are blue like the sky.

• metaphor

• simile

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

words that sound like an action

Buzz, Zoom!

• speaker

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

when words close to each other have the same beginning sound

"Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers"

• metaphor

• third person POV

• alliteration

• personification

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human

The sun smiled down on us

• Personification
• Speaker

• Metaphor
• Allegory

A type of language that does not use literal meanings

Includes: similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification

• literal language
• English

• imagery

• figurative language

a type of figurative language that is an exaggeration

I have a million pages of homework

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

When mental images are formed in your mind through language

• personification

• hyperbole

• Imagery

• simile

When the person narrating the story is telling about themselves. (Speaker)

"I saw three birds on my car."

• First-person POV

• Narrative POV

• Second-person POV

• Third-person POV

When the narrator talks about other people

"They walked away from their house."

• first person POV

• second person POV

• third person POV

• They are visiting their house.