Words
Personification.
Giving human characteristics to a non-living object.
Multiple lines in a stanza that have rhyming words at the end.
End Rhyme
BUZZ
Onomatopoeia
Assonance (Slant Rhyme)
Vowel sounds within words are the same
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Simile
Your feet smell as bad as a week old garbage can in the Summer.
Simile
Internal rhyme
Words within a sentence or line rhyme
Uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis.
Hyperbole
My backpack weighs a ton.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.
Words or phrases that occur multiple times
Repetition
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
Stanza
The smallest division of a poem
Words that mean the same as they sound.
onomatopoeia
The words from the book danced across the page and floated into my mind.
Personification