poetry terms

Personification

giving human-like characteristics to inanimate objects

Simile

comparing two unlike things using like or as

Metaphor

Comparing to things without like or as and using is

Saying one this is another

Alliteration

Repition of consenant sounds at the beginning of words

Hyperbole

Excessive exageration

Imagery

Descriptions to create image in the readers mind

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds within words

-hair -care -flare-there

End rhyme.

Rhyming words at the end of a line

Sonnet

14 line poem made up of 3 quatrains and ends with a rhyming couplet

Stanza

A defined section of a poem (poem paragraph)

Quatrain

4 line stanza

Audience

Reader/listener of poem

Foil

A character with qualities that contrast with main character to highlight main character qualities

Diction

Authors word choice

Theme

Lesson/ message the author wants the audience to take away from the text

Subject

Who/what/where the text is about