Figurative Language
This is a type of figurative language that describes nonhuman things as if they have human qualities or characteristics.
What is personification?
Though it sounds like a punctuation mark, this is a poem that addresses a person or thing that is not present.
What is an apostrophe?
The following nursery rhyme has what rhyme scheme?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
What is AABB?
A section of a poem that consists of a line or a group of lines. This is the equivalent of a paragraph for poetry.
What is a stanza?
This noun is another word for the Earth's surface.
What is ground?
These are the two types of figurative language that suggest similarities between two unlike things.
What are similes and metaphors?
This form of poetry uses the repetition of words at the beginning of a series of lines to stress something.
What is anaphora?
A pattern of starting multiple words in a row with the same letter or sound.
What is alliteration?
The following stanza from "Snow Dust" is made up of 4 of these.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
What are lines?
This adjective means not of this world.
What is mystical?
This is the type of figurative language used in the poem "Advice" when the father compares how to handle worms and how to handle hurtful words.
What is implied metaphor?
In this type of poem, a poet writes about the craft of poetry.
What is ars poetica?
A poetry device that is an indirect reference to an outside work of art or cultural figure.
What is allusion?
This is a stanza with four lines.
This verb means to feel sorry about or regret something.
What is rue?
This is the type of figurative language is used in "The Copper Beech" when the poet says the tree "wore that yard like a dress."
The following lines from "My Favorite Things" is an example of this type of poem.
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad.
What is anaphora?
A poetry device that links two ideas by repeating the same form in a series of lines.
What is parallel structure?
Poets often use these non-literal words or phrases in their poems to help their audience better visualize or emphasize parts of the poem.
What is figurative language?
This adjective means clear or obvious.
What is evident?
This is the form of figurative language used in the poem "Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)" when the poet writes "The house shivered as snow fell on its roof."
What is personification?
This is a type of poem in which each stanza repeats at least one line from elsewhere in the poem.
What is a villanelle?
An attitude, such as sincere or insincere, that is communicated through the style of writing and the words an author uses.
What is tone?
This is the shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing.
What is form?
This word is a verb meaning to hold somebody or something motionless.
What is transfixed?