Poetry Terms

2. An unstressed followed by a stressed.
4. - Dictionary meaning of words
5. - Likeness of sound in two words: cat and sat end with the same vowel and consonant sound
6. - An overstatement: an obvious and direct statement that shouldn’t be taken literally.
8. - Comparison between two unlike things: saying one thing is another (Love is a rose.)
10. - Words that mean the opposite of their denotative meaning
11. - Giving human qualities to animals or nonliving objects (The tree’s branches waved at me.)
12. - Emotional associations given to words (mother, apple pie, baseball)
14. - Words whose sounds suggest their meaning: clang, buzz, sizzle, hiss

1. - When one word symbolically stands for another: Light may mean sight or understanding
3. - Patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables: See Iambic Foot
5. - The repetition of a line or phrase at regular intervals (A song’s chorus)
7. - Repetition of consonant sounds at syllable breaks or word endings: bloom, come, dream
9. - The repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
13. - Smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line
15. - Words that appeal to the five senses; or extended, the image of the whole poem.