Poetry+Definitions


 * Alliteration ** : two or more words starting with the same sound


 * Assonance: ** repetition of vowel sounds


 * Imagery: ** use of language to create a vivid image


 * Internal rhyme: ** placement of rhyming words within a line of poetry


 * Metaphor: ** where the writer writes about something as if it were really something else


 * Onomatopoeia ** : when a word sounds like the noise it is describing


 * Personification: ** language describing human action, motivation and emotion is used but is referring to non-human things


 * Rhyme ** : words with similar sounds


 * Simile ** : describes something by comparing it to something else using like or as


 * Syllable ** : a word or part of a word that has one separate sound when you say it.