Poetry Terms Flashcards
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme scheme
Onomantopoeia
Use of words that imitate sounds
Use more than once of any element of language a sound word, phrase ,clause or sentence
Repetition
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Alliteration
Assonance
The Repeating of vowel sounds
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between unlike ideas
Simile
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
Metaphor
Over exaggeration of something
Hyperbole
Personification
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
Central message in a literacy work
Theme
Stanza
A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by a space
