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Poetry Terms!!!
Alliteration
The repetition of constant sounds
at the beginning of words.
Angus Always ate Apples.
Go Give Glen Good Grapes.
Figurative Language
Language enriched by word
images and figures of speech.
Ben was as big as a beach ball.
“Great Odens’ Raven” said Ron Burgendy
Hyperbole
A figure of speech which uses a
deliberate exaggeration.
Ben was so hungry, he could eat a horse.
It was so loud at the concert that I
Couldn’t hear myself think.
Rhyme
Correspondence of terminal
sounds of words or of lines of
verse.
Sam I am ate Green Eggs and Ham.
Symbol
A concrete thing used to
suggest something larger and
more abstract.
Sensory Details
Details perceived by sight,
hearing, smell, or any mode by
which one perceives stimuli
outside or within the body.
Onomatopoeia
Words whose sound imitates their
suggested meaning.
BAM!! Todd hit a homerun.
Assonance
The close repetition of middle
vowel sounds.
Fleeting Feet Sweep by Sleeping
Geese.
Personification
A figure of speech in which
human qualities are attributed
to animals, inanimate objects,
or ideas.
The arms of the tree swayed in the wind.
Simile
A figure of speech in which a
comparison is made between
two unlike things using the
word “like” or “as”.
I feel like I could die.
Internal Rhyme
A rhyme between words in the
same line.
Larry was very hairy.
Tone
The reflection of an author’s
attitude toward his or her
subject.
Imagery
Words and phrases that create
vivid sensory experiences for a
reader.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which an
implied comparison is made
between two unlike things.
Mood
The feeling or atmosphere that a
writer creates for a reader;
reflection of an author’s
attitude toward a subject or
theme.
Stanza
One of the divisions of a poem,
composed of two or more lines
usually characterized by a
common pattern of meter,
rhyme, and number of lines.
Couplet
Two lines of verse with similar
end-rhymed.
Free Verse
Verse composed of variable,
usually unrhymed lines having
no fixed metrical pattern.
Sonnet
A lyric poem of fourteen lines,
following one or another of
several set rhyme-schemes.