English TAT

for the TAT

Visual imagery

Descriptive language appealing to sight

Auditory imagery

descriptive language appealing to sound

Olfactory imagery

Descriptive language appealing to smell

Gustatory imagery

Descriptive language appealing to taste

Tactile imagery

Descriptive language appealing to touch

Kinesthetic imagery

Descriptive language appealing to movement

simile

Comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Metaphor

Comparison of two unlike things without using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Extended metaphor

A single metaphor used across multiple lines or stanzas

Personification

When an idea or object is given human traits or feelings

Sibilance

Repetition of ‘s’ or ‘shh’ sounds

Onomatopoeia

Words that imitate the sounds they describe (e.g. boom, splat)

Tone

The attitude towards the poem

Mood

The atmosphere the poem creates

symbol

An object or action that stands for something beyond itself

rhyme

repetition of sounds at the end of words

alliteration

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

sibilance

repetition of “s” or “shh” sounds

onomatopoeia

words that imitate the sounds they described

repetition

repeating the same words or phrase