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| Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell). |
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| A figure of speech which involves a direct comparision between two unlike things, usually using like or as. |
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| A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things - the comparison is not announced/stated using like or as. |
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| A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea. |
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| The use of words that mimic sounds. |
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| An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. |
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| an expression that refers to a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly/litteraly translated word-for-word. Ex. "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning she obsessed not that their is literraly a bee in her bonnet. |
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| language/terms/saying/ that do not mean the literal (denotative) definition of the word (s) -- you, the reader/listener must "figure" out its meaning. |
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| Words or phrase meaning is exactly what their dictionary meaning is. |
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| a sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem |
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| Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry/phrase |
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| Repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession |
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| A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas) |
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| The poet is the author of the poem (this may not be the speaker). |
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| The speaker of the poem is the "narrator" of the poem. |
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| the type of poem, or how a poem is organized |
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| a group of words together on one line of the poem |
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| a group of lines in a poem that are arranged together |
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| free versed poems do not have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables, do not have to rhyme and are very conversational |
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| words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds |
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| When a word at the end of one line ryhmes with a word at the end of another line |
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| when a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |
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also know as (a.k.a.) imperfect rhyme or close rhyme.
When words share either the same vowel or consonant sound but not both |
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A pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always.
The letter of the alphabet are used to represents the patterns of a poem |
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