Figurative Language Terms
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Buzz!
What is onomatopoeia?
Cat and Rat
What is rhyme?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This poet read "The Hills We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration ceremony.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.
What is an alliteration?
I read that book a thousand times!
What is a hyperbole?
"Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow/That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
- Romeo and Juliet
This is an example of this kind of poem.
What is a couplet?
A three line poem, usually about nature, generally following a 5-7-5 syllable structure.
What is a haiku?
This poet created the modern day detective story.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
The opposite of what you might expect
What is irony?
The bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired.
What is a pun?
The attitude of the author towards a subject
What is tone?
The division of words into syllables, either in speech or writing.
What is syllabication?
This poet is known for her use of syntax and form, and greatly influenced the direction of 20th Century poetry.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
An action, object, event, etc. that represents or stands for something else
What is symbolism?
"When I see birches bend to left and right/Across the lines of straighter darker trees,/I like to think some boy's been swinging on them." -Robert Frost, "Birches"
This is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is imagery?
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping" is an example of this kind of rhyme.
What is an internal rhyme?
A noticeable pattern in verse established by stressed syllables
What is rhythm?
This poet had his first poem published in the New York Independent called "My Butterfly". His poems were often inspired by the New England landscape.
Who was Robert Frost?
The repetition of consonants in a line.
What is consonance?
"Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" - Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"
This is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is assonance?
The number and style of accented syllables in a line
What is meter?
A humorous, rhyming, five line poem with specific rhythm and rhyme
What is a limerick?
This poet graduated from California State University with a BA in English, and worked in fields and factories as an adult.
Who is Gary Soto?