Definition
Examples
Synonyms
100
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as.
What is Simile?
100
A firehouse burning down to the ground.
What is irony?
100
Exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
200
The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
What is symbolisim
200
The leaves dance in the wind.
What is personification?
200
heroic poem
What is Epic?
300
A statement were contradictory terms are combined
What is Oxymoron
300
Boom, Bang, POW
What is onomonapia
300
blank verse
What is free verse?
400
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhymed scheme.
What is sonnet?
400
Cloud fluffy, white drifting, floating, changing making animals up high cotton
What is cinquain?
400
indirect mention
What is Allusion?
500
A verse form with a rhyme scheme: ABA BCB CDC etc.
What is Terza Rima?
500
Royalty for crown, Animal for chicken
What is metonymy
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