Poetry Review

Any writing that uses words for their sound and rhythm as well as their meaning. It usually emphasizes artistic elements like rhythm, rhyme, and repetition.

A direct comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use the words like or as.

A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

An important idea in a text that focuses on the deeper meaning or message the reader is meant to consider.

"To repeat" something. It is the use of any element of language- a sound, word, phrase, or sentence- more than once.

The repetition of similar sounds.

The use of words that sound like the noises they describe.

Ordinary writing, like you’d find in a textbook, newspaper article, or novel. It expresses ideas in simple, direct language.

A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops one idea.

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of several words of a line or poetry or a sentence.

The feeling created in the reader by a poem or story using words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration.

A common phrase made up of words that can't be understood by their literal, or ordinary, meanings.

Made up of all the tools that a poet uses to create a special effect of feeling. Includes metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia.

Language that appeals to the five senses- touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight.

An extreme exaggeration used to make a point

The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.