1. imagery hyperbole form
simile
stanza
Poetry Terms
personification
imagery
hyperbole
metaphor
alliteration
form
onomatopoeia

2. Figurative Language:
any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject

3. language that appeals to the senses;
Imagery
language that appeals to the senses;
descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses

4. Simile:
a comparison between
two unlike things
using the words
"like" or "as"

5. I am hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit. She is happy as a clam.
                                                       
                                                                  
                                                                        
She is happy as a clam.
He is sneaky as a snake.

6. an implied comparison between two
Metaphor:
an implied comparison between two
relatively unlike things using a form of
the verb “to be” (not using “like” or “as”)

7. The girl was a fish in the water.
The clown was a feather floating away.

8. giving the qualities of a person
Personification:
giving the qualities of a person
to an animal,
an object, or an idea

9. The flowers danced in the wind.
                                                            
The friendly gates welcomed us.
The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

10. Alliteration: repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning
of words or within words

11. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.
                                                            
Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.

12. Onomatopoeia:
the use of words that
mimic sounds

13. Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh Swish swish swish Chug chug chug!!
                                               
Swish swish swish
Chug chug chug!!
Glippp Gluppp Gluppp

14. Hyperbole:
an exaggerated
statement used to
heighten effect

15. She soared through the sky a million or more miles.
                                    
                                                                        
It rained cats and dogs!

16. FORM
                  
the organization of words in a poem; the way the poem and its words look on a page

17. STANZA:
group of words in a poem
(kind of like a poem paragraph)