POETRY TERMS

ALLITERATION

• Repetition of the initial letter or sound in more than one word on a line
• Ex: "Peter" "Piper" "Picked" a "peck" of "pickled" "peppers"

RHYME

• The reptition of sounds.
• End rhyme is the last word on lines that rhyme
• Ex: the snow glows white
• on the mountain tonight
• White and tonight rhyme

ONOMATOPOEIA

• Words sounding like their meaning
• Ex: the baloons went "Pop!" When the man poked them with a needle

IDIOM

• Words that arent taken literally
• Ex: cat got your tounge?

REPETITON

• The act of repeating something more than one
• Ex: I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?

RHYTHYM

• Flow of the beat in a poem
• Ex: tyger tyger buring bright, in the forests of the night
• Do you hear the rhythm in the two lines?

IRONY

• Words meaning the opposite of its literal meaning
• Ex: saying something is horrible even if youre enjoying it

SIMILE

• Comparison between two unrealated things
• Has use of like or as
• Ex: 🎼you must be swift AS the coursing river🎼

METAPHOR

• A implied comparison between two usually unrelated things
• Ex: the curtain of night

HYPERBOLE

• An exaggeration for the sake of emphasis
• Ex: its so fluffy im gonna die

PERSONIFICATION

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
• Ex: flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze

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