Poetry Review

the repetition of vowel sounds within words or syllables

overstating something, usually for comic effect; exaggeration

the use of words that sound like what they signify

person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and beyond itself

a group of lines; the "paragraph" of the poem

the "voice" of the poem

a literary element that evokes certain feelings through words and descriptions

figurative language that appeals to the senses

a row of words in a poem

a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times

the attitude a speaker takes toward his or her subject, characters, audience

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

the repetition of two or more consonants with different vowel sounds in between

the pattern of rhyming in a poem

A musical quality repeating stressed & unstressed syllables

two lines of verse, usually having the same meter and joined by rhyme

words with similar end sounds, within or at the end of lines

the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together