| A | B |
|---|
| image | a word "picture" |
| sensory image | words or phrases that appeal to senses |
| visual image | words or phrases that appeal to sight |
| tactile image | words or phrases that appeal to touch |
| auditory image | words or phrases that appeal to hearing |
| personification | gives life-like qualities to non-living entities |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like the |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for humor or emphasis |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowels in stressed syllables |
| metaphor | an implied comparison between unlike objects |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| stanza | a group of lines |
| rhythm | the "beat" of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line |
| rhyme | words that sound the same, usually at the end of a line |
| theme | message, either implied or stated |
| tone | the emotional feeling or "flavor" of a work |
| speaker | the voice of the narrator or "reader" of a poem |
