Figurative Language
Elements of Poetry
Vocabulary
You Tell Me
Misc.
100
Words whose sounds imitates their suggested meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work.
What is rhyme?
100
The actual meaning of a word or a phrase.
What is the literal meaning?
100
Bow-wow! Hiss! Pop! Snap!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Means what it actually says denotatively, but means something else as well.
What is a symbol?
200
An implied comparison is made between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
200
Using a word or phrase more than once.
What is repetition?
200
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
She's as orderly as a telephone book.
What is a simile?
200
A word that has more than one meaning.
What is double denotation?
300
A deliberate exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
300
The literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
300
Language enriched by word images and figures of speech.
What is figurative language?
300
Patient people picked politely at pots of popcorn.
What is alliteration?
300
A general conclusion drawn from information that is given.
What is an inference?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
400
The image and feeling unstated but associated with a word.
What is connotation?
400
Purposely powerful words chosen to cause a reaction.
What is poetry?
400
The professor is a reference book.
What is a metaphor?
400
The recognition of the difference between reality and appearance.
What is irony?
500
An inanimate object has human-like qualities.
What is personification?
500
When a line physically ends before its meaning ends.
What is an enjambed line?
500
A reference in a literary work to a person, place or thing in history or another work of literature.
What is an allusion?
500
I have told you a million times.
What is a hyperbole?
500
The close repetition of middle vowels.
What is assonance?
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