Poetry techniques
When an object is given human characteristics.
Personification
What the poet is trying to say in the poem.
Meaning
A poem in which the first letter of each new line spells out a word.
Acrostic poem
The author of Romeo & Juliet.
William Shakespeare
Words at the end of lines in a poem that have the same final sound.
Rhyme
Words that begin with the same consonant sound that are consecutive or close together.
Alliteration
The words and techniques used in a poem.
Language
A type of poem that is focused on something or someone that you really love.
An ode
The author of The Cat in the Hat.
Dr Seuss
The same word is used twice or more within a single text.
Repetition
A sentence that tells us about one subject by saying that it is like something else, using the words \"like\" or \"as\" in the sentence.
Simile
A part of a poem that appeals to the senses to create a vivid picture for readers.
Imagery
A rhyming poem with an AABBA structure.
A limerick
The author of California Love.
Tupac
"Paragraphs" in a poem
Stanza
A sentence that tells us about one subject by saying that it is something else. It is not literally true.
Metaphor
The way in which the text is set out to the reader.
Structure
An unrhymed poem consisting of 17 syllables.
A haiku
The author of The Raven.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Descriptive words and phrases used to create an image in the mind of the responder.
Imagery
When a word sounds like the sound it refers to.
Onomatopoeia
The feeling or mood conveyed by the writer's language choices.
Effect
A poem written from the point of view of an animal, plant or object.
A personification poem
The author of Preludes.
T.S. Eliot
The use of real objects to represent something that is abstract, like a feeling.
Symbolism