Sound
Words that have the same ending sound.
What is rhyme?
This sense is used in the following phrase... felt the damp of the river's fog.
What is feel?
giving human characteristics to an object
What is personification?
What is form?
hair is like moldy hay
What is a simile?
Words that have the same beginning sound
What is alliteration?
This sense is used in the following statement... O bleeding drops of red!
What is see/sight?
an extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
how a poem makes the reader feel
What is mood?
stars danced heel to toe
What is personification?
What is rhythm/meter (either accepted)
What sense is used in this phrase... the bleating of the flock
What is hearing?
comparing two things by stating it is that thing
What is a metaphor?
What is theme?
roses are red, violets are blue
sugar is sweet, so are you
What is rhyme/rhyme scheme/or rhythm?
Mooooo Boom Bang Buzz
What is an onomatopoeia?
What is the sense in this phrase... black burned buttered toast
Comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
when the poet takes freedoms with language
What is poetic license?
He wore a smile you could see a mile.
What is hyperbole?
purposeful repeating of words, phrases or lines for emphasis
What is a repetition?
What is the sense in this phrase... rancid meat and stinky feet.
What is smell?
comparing two things by referencing literature or a historical event
What is an allusion?
poems without a rhyming pattern
What is free verse?
the highwayman came riding...
riding--- riding----
the highwayman came riding up to the old inn-door
What is repetition