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Poetry Terms
Poetic Pop Culture
Spongebob
100
comparing two things using "like" or "as"
simile
100
comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
metaphor
100
words that have a similar ending sounds
rhyme
100
Onomatopoeia
100
Do you smell it? A kind of smelly smell. The smelly smell that smells...smelly.
repetition
200
giving a non-human thing human characteristics
personification
200
repeating the same words or phrases in close proximity for effect
repetition
200
a division in poetry similar to a paragraph in prose writing
stanza
200
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Simile
200
Livin' like Larry!
alliteration
300
the repetition of consonant sounds
alliteration
300
an extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
300
the ordered or free occurrence of sound in poetry
rhythm
300
Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
If there are, we'll all be dead!
Rhyme
300
Hello young lady. Is your mother home?
hyperbole
400
The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning.
onomatopoeia
400
the use of words or phrases to paint a picture in the reader's mind
imagery
400
a rhyming pattern represented by letters (ex. AABB)
rhyme scheme
400
Life is pain, highness.
Metaphor
400
No one must know the secret of the box. Nobody! not even... Squidward's house.
personification
500
the repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity
assonance
500
a person, place, thing, or event that stands for something greater than itself
symbol
500
words that are used to have meaning beyond their literal definition
figurative language
500
Irony
500
Wait, if that was you on the phone and you on the bus, then who was flickering the lights?...Nosferatu!
allusion