techniques

• A description that compares two thing using the words 'as' or 'like'?


  simile
• two words that seem to mean the opposite placed together?


  oxymoron
• a description that comparess two things by saying that one ISthe other?


  metaphor
• a description that gives an object human characteristics?


  personification
• a pair of consecutive rhyming lines in poetry?


  rhyming couplets
• a word that describes the sound it is making .for example: Bang! Crash!?


  onomatopoeia
• The name for a narrator in a poem?


  speaker
• Words that occur more than once?


  Repetition
• The pattern of rhyme in a poem.We use letter to work the pattern out.?

  Rhyme Scheme
• The repetition of the 's' sound at the beginning words which are next to or nearly next to each over in a sentence?


  sibilance
• Another word for a verse of poetry?

  stanza
• The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of several words. ?


  alliteration
• a mid-line pause, usally indicated by punctuation within a line of poetry. ?


  caesura
• The mood of the poem?


  tone
• Descriptive language that helps youcreate a strong visual images in your mind?


  Imagery
• Enjambment?


  a lack of punctuation at the endof a line of poetry so that it runsonto the next line.