Poetry Terms

When the meaning of a line spills onto the next line (often comes with caesura)

• Oxymoron

• Enjambment

• Symbol

• Consonance

Comparing two things using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personsification

• Hyperbole

The following is an example of what?
I wandered lonely as a cloud.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Consonance

An object that represents something else

• Paradox

• Imagery

• Symbol

• Personification

A phrase that puts an image in your head, like "the rain poured down, drenching the field and creating small swimming holes for all the animals"

• idiom

• hyperbole

• imagery

• rhyme scheme

What is the following an example of?
The boy was so bored by the lesson, he was pulling his hair out.

• Hyperbole

• Similie

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

The following are examples of what?
Student teacher, jumbo shrimp, larger half, seriously funny

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Enjambment

• Imagery

repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words

• alliteration

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• personification

seven snakes slithered silently

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• rhythm

words that sound like the object or actions they refer to

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• rhyme

• similie