Poetry: Terms and Devices

2. the pattern of sound createed by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
5. rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry
7. rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry
8. a figure of speech that makes a reference to a famous person, place, or thing in order to stimulate ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader's mind
10. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
11. the use of a word or phrase, such as "hiss" or "buzz," that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
13. the use of words, phrases, or sentences that have a similar grammatical form
15. a group of lines forming a unit
16. commonly used phrases that can be confusing because of their hidden meanings
17. a figure of speech that involves a gross overstatement in order to make a point

1. descriptive language that appeals to the senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell
3. a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables which sets the overal rhythm of certain poems
4. attributes human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
6. compares or equates seemingly unlike things, but does not use like or as
9. the pattern of the end rhymes that is designated by assigning a differnet letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme
12. the voice that talks to the reader
14. the repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry
15. figure of speech using a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things
18. a word or row of words tht may or may not form a complete sentence