Poetry Terms

What has no repeating patterns of syllables, and no rhyme? It's conversational and modern.

What is language that appeals to the senses and "paints a word picture?"

What is a type of alliteration in which repeated vowel sounds are in a line or lines of poetry?

What is created by meter, rhyme, alliteration, to make the "music" of the poem?

What is it when a poet creates emphasis using exaggeration?

What is a person, place, or thing, that has meaning in itself AND represents something else?

What is a group of words on one line of a poem?

What is an alliteration in which the repeated consonant sounds are anywhere in the words?

What is a direct comparison of two unlike things?

What is it when human qualities are given to non-humans such as objects or animals?

What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

What is a word inside a line that rhymes with another word on the same line?

What is a word at the end of one line that rhymes with a word at the end of another line?

What is a reference in a literary work to something famous?

What are words that imitate the sound they name?

What is a poem that tells a story?

What is a group of lines arranged together?

What are consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words?

What is the main idea of a poem, story, or piece of art?

What is a comparison of two things using than, resembles, as, or like?