Poetry Glossary
The glossary that holds all the elements and more used in this website.
The elements used in the poems were metaphor, simile, allusion, visual imagery, auditory imagery, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition, and theme.
The elements used in the poems were metaphor, simile, allusion, visual imagery, auditory imagery, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition, and theme.
Literary Elements
Imagery- complex descriptions
Visual Imagery - Vivid descriptions of images and/or scenes.
Auditory Imagery - Descriptive language that evokes voice, music or sounds.
Olfactory Imagery- imagery/ description dealing with scent.
Gustatory Imagery- imagery/ description dealing with taste.
Tactile Imagery - descriptions that evokes the sense of touch.
Organic Imagery - descriptions of internal sensation, feelings.
Kinesthetic imagery- descriptions of movement and tension.
Figurative Language
Metaphor- describes an object or subject and compares figuratively, by saying the object or subject is the thing
compared to.
Simile- comparing things or phrases using like or as.
Personification - when objects, animals, or ideas act like a human.
Hyperbole - obvious/ intentional exaggeration
Symbol- when ideas or objects represent a condition or concept
Allusion- making an indirect reference and/ quotes to enhance the poem's background or the poem itself.
Melodic Devices
Assonance- repitition of vowel sounds to create a rhythm.
Alliteration- use of similiar consonants , or using words beginning with the same letter
Consonance- similarity between consonants, a harmonic combination
Onomatopoeia- words reacting from an action verb
(Wow!, Bang!, Pow!, etc.)
Cacophony- harsh discordance of voice, unpleasant
Euphony- pleasing effect of pronunciation/ speech to the ear.
Rhyme
End Rhyme- occurring at the end of two or more lines of verse
Internal rhyme- occurs between two or more words in the same line of verse
Masculine rhme- one syllable rhymes with one syllable of another word
ex: light, bright)
Feminine rhyme- occurs when the last two syllabels of a word rhyme with another
ex: lighting, fighting)
Triple Rhyme- last three syllables rhyme
Rhyme Scheme- pattern or sequence in which rhyme occurs (a, b, a, b)