Rhyme Scheme
Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jump over
The candlestick.
ABCB
The honey bees were buzzing around the hive
Onomatopoeia
One line in a poem.
Line
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail.
And pir the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
ABAB
The city streets hum with energy
Personification
A group of lines that are together.
Stanza
Well-known phrase that does not mean exactly what it says.
Idiom
A boat beneath a sunny sky.
Lingering onward dreamily
In that evening of July -
ABA
It took me a hundred years to do my homework
Hyperbole
Is how syllables are accented or unaccented to create the poem's "beat" or rhythm.
Meter
Gives something human qualities or characteristics
Personification
There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said, It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen
Four Larks and a Wren.
Have all built their nests in my beard!
AABBA
Tell me, tell me, smiling child,
What the past is like to thee?
An Autumn evening soft and mild
With a wind that sighs mournfully.
Metaphor
Words that have the same ending sound.
Rhyme
Occurs when two or more words start with the same consonant sound
Alliteration
Thirty days has September
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one
Except for February, alone
Which has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
AABBCC
Rachel ran right until she realized she was running round and round.
Alliteration
Sometimes words or phrases are repeated. A repeated phrase is called a refrain.
Repetition
Uses exaggeration to grab the reader's attention
Hyperbole