Poetry Terms Review

2. repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
5. the way the words look in a poem
6. the way an author uses word choice
9. language, language that is not meant to be taken literally
12. words that imitate the sounds they make
15. a group of lines arranged together in a poem
19. scheme, a pattern of rhyme within the lines of poetry
20. language that appeals to the five sense
21. words that sound alike because they share the same vowel ending and consonant sounds
23. the atmosphere or emotional feeling an author attempts to create
24. the author of a poem

1. giving non humans human-like qualities
3. the author's attitude towards a subject
4. a phrase regularly repeated in a poem
7. the "narrator" of the poem
8. a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
10. rhyme, a word at the end of a line of poetry rhymes with a word at the end of another line
11. literature that expresses ideas and feelings in the form of lines and stanzas
13. rhyme, a word inside a line of poetry rhymes with another word in the same line
14. a group of words arranged together
16. rhyme, imperfect or close rhyme (i.e., ROSE and LOSE)
17. extreme exaggeration used for emphasis
18. the beat created by the sounds of words in a poem
20. an expression where the literal meaning of the words doesn't make sense
22. a direct comparison of unlike things (usually uses verbs like is, was, are)