| A | B |
|---|
| symbolism | an image that has meaning beyond what it literally represents |
| The color red symbolizes | anger |
| Winter symbolizes | death |
| simile | uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison between two unlike things |
| metaphor | compares to unlike this without using "like" or "as" |
| alliteration | She sells seashells by the seashore |
| personification | nonhuman subjects are given human characteristics |
| repetition | repeating of sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
| onomatapoeia | Whir, Bam, Poof |
| stanza | "paragraphs" of a poem |
| imagery | pictures created through the five senses |
| rhyme scheme | indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme |
| end rhyme | the rhyming words come at the ends of a line |
| internal rhyme | the rhyming words appear in the same line |
| couplet | two line stanza |
| quatrain | four line stanza |
| prose | everyday language structured into paragraphs |
| You're a poet | did ya know it? |
