Poetry Vocab Flashcards
Metaphor
Compares two things
Ex. You are a couch potato
Simile
Compares two things (as,like)
Ex. Busy as a bee
Personification
Gives human characteristics to non living objects
Ex. His shoes danced across the floor
Hyperbole
An outrageous exaggeration
Ex. you snore louder then a freight train
Symbolism
A word which has meaning in itself but is used to represent something different
Ex. Dove= love
Alliteration
Is a sound device, repetition of sounds
Ex. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better
Onomatopoeia
A sound device
Ex. BOOM!!!
Allusion
A brief reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or moment
Ex. I was surprised that his nose did not grow like Pinocchio
Connotation
Emotional suggestion of a word
Ex. Positive-sweet negative- ugly neutral-busy
Denotation
Literal meaning of the word
Ex. Sherpas
Lines
Poetry is written in lines
Stanza
Grouping of lines
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Ex. The light of the fire is a sight
Anthology
Collection
