Poetic Terms

Hyperbole

________- A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to give a statement impact.

Personification

________: A figure of speech in which animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human form, character traits or personality.

Onomatopoeia

________: When a word is used that demonstrates a sound.

Metaphor

________: A figure of speech in which 2 unlike things are compared without using the words "as, ""like "or "than.

Simile

________: A figure of speech in which 2 unlike things are compared using the words "like, ""as "or "than.

Imagery

________: A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling or an idea.

Oxymoron

________: A word or group of words that is self- contradicting.

Allusion

________- A brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place, and event or to another work or passage.

Alliteration

________- When the beginning of words start with the same consonant or vowel sounds in stressed syllables- and the words are close together, the effect is called ________.

Assonance

________- The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry.

Paradox

________: An apparent contradiction that, upon deeper analysis, contains a degree of truth.

Tone

________: The authors attitude toward the subject matter.

central insight

Theme: The controlling idea or ________ in a poem or piece of literature.

Couplet

________: A couple is made of two people, two things, two of everything.

Mood

________: The feeling created in the work of literature.

Example

 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Assonance 

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry

Example

 I rose and told him of my woe

Allusion

A brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place, and event or to another work or passage

Example

"This place is like a Garden of Eden."

Couplet

A couple is made of two people, two things, two of everything

Example

"But if the while I think of thee, dear friend,

Examples

I will just die if I do not go to the party

Imagery

A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling or an idea

Example

  Anything that creates vivid mental pictures (appeals to sight, smell, taste, touch and sound)

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which 2 unlike things are compared without using the words "as",                         "like" or "than"

Example

He is a fish when it comes to swimming

Onomatopoeia

When a word is used that demonstrates a sound

Examples

 buzz, zap, crunch, bang

Oxymoron

A word or group of words that is self-contradicting

Examples

 bittersweet, plastic glass or jumbo shrimp

Paradox

An apparent contradiction that, upon deeper analysis, contains a degree of truth

Examples

Some of us are not all here

Personification

A figure of speech in which animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human form, character traits or personality

Example

The kettle whistled on the stove

Simile

        A figure of speech in which 2 unlike things are compared using the words "like", "as" or "than"

Example

Her eyes are as blue as the ocean

Mood

 The feeling created in the work of literature

Example

Is it bright and cheerful or dark and frightening

Theme

The controlling idea or central insight in a poem or piece of literature

Examples

Forgiveness, appearance vs. reality, love etc

Tone

The authors attitude toward the subject matter

Examples

 comic, condescending, cheerful, serious, playful, somber, threatening etc