Poetry Flashcards
Repetition of the initial consonants of words.
Alliteration
A poem without predictable rhyme, rhythm, or length of line or stanza.
Free Verse
Excessive exaggeration to make a point.
Hyperbole
The use of vivid words that appeal to the reader’s senses of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch.
Imagery
A comparison of two dissimilar things that implies some sort of equality between the things.
Metaphor
A word that makes the sound of the action it describes.
Onomatopoeia
A comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects.
Personification
The pattern of the end rhymes in a poem.
Rhyme scheme
A comparison of two dissimilar things that uses “like” or “as” .
Simile
The narrator of a poem.
Speaker
A group of lines of poetry, usually similar in length and pattern.
Stanza
Something in a poem that stands for something larger than itself.
Symbol
