Poetry Terms
by shannon scouten
1. Imagery- The use of words and phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses, usually in the form of a simile or metaphor, a.k.a. figures of speech hence figurative language as opposed to literal language.
1.1. Alliteration- The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words.
2. Personification- Gives human traits or qualities to nonhuman things.
3. Assonance- The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more neighboring words.
4. Onomatipoeia- Is a word that resembles the sound it represents.
5. Simile- A Comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
6. Metaphor- A comparison of two unlike things by saying one is the other.
7. antithesis-two words ,sentences or ideas are contrasted (for the children upstairs while we wait below)
