• My love is like a red rose….
Simile: A comparison using like or as
• He drowned in a sea of grief.
Metaphor: A direct comparison between two
unlike things
• Under a green sea of grass/ I saw him drowning
Imagery: Words or figurative language that
create a picture
• I’m so lonely I could die.
Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration
• Adjectives: Serious, somber, light, realaxed
Mood: The feeling a reader is supposed to get
from a poem
• She sells sea shells by the sea shore
Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds
• When you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think my favorite song…
Allusion: To make reference to a well known
person.
• The tree branches reached out violently for me as I ran
Personification: Giving human attributes/qualities to
non human things.
• Group of lines in a poem
• The attitude of the poet towards to subject/poem: bitter, critical, sarcastic, worshiping, loving.
Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds.
• Come to believe that you better not leave.
Oxymoron: Putting together two contradictorily
ideas.
• Jumbo shrimp, cold fire, sick health, educated ignorance.
Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sound.
• BAM, THWAP, MOO, AAAAAAH.
Speaker: Voice of the poem.
• The Chorus speaks the prologue in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.• In a love poem the speaker is a lover
speaking to their love.
Symbol: Concrete object represents abstract
concepts.
Theme: The main idea of a poem or story.
The theme of ‘Harry Potter’ by JK Rowling is that with teamwork, perseverance and sacrifice, good will always triumph over evil.