A. Literary Terms and their definitions #1
B. Literary Terms and their definitions #2
Poetry Terms
D. examples of literary terms #1
E. examples of literary terms #2
100
comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100
Pattern of beats or stresses of language
What is Rhythm?
100
language that appeals to the five senses in order to help reader paint a picture in their mind.
What is a Imagery?
100
moor and door... thigh and sky
What is rhyme?
100
crack! boom! tic-toc
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a comparison without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
What is personification?
200
The moral or lesson of a poem?
What is a theme?
200
"as smooth as a baby's bottom"
What is a simile?
200
"the moon was a ghostly galleon"
What is a metaphor?
300
repetition of a consonant sound
What is alliteration?
300
repetition of a vowel sound
What is assonance?
300
The person who is telling the poem.
What is the speaker?
300
a heart stands for love
What is symbolism?
300
the cow jumped over the moon; the dish ran away with the spoon
What is personification?
400
a great exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
formation of a word by imitation of a sound made
What is onomatopoeia?
400
What is the rhyme scheme? I am boy Who loves a toy My soccer ball Is the best of all.
What is AABB
400
"he whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there..."
What is alliteration? (consonance)
400
"I've told you a million times..."
What is a hyperbole?
500
Same ending sounds of words
What is rhyme
500
Repetition of a word, phrase, line, or lines in a poem, song, or speech at regular intervals.
What is refrain?
500
two lines of a poem, joined by rhyme.
What is a couplet?
500
"as loudly as nine or ten thousand men" is an example of what
What is hyperbole?
500
"Break a leg" is an example of what?
What is idiom?
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