Category 1
a specific comparison of two unlike things, involving a scenario used throughout an ENTIRE or LARGE PORTION of text
Extended Metaphor
compares three or more people, places, things, ideas, or actions.
What is a superlative?
the rhyming of words at the ends of lines & the rhyming of words within the lines
What are end rhyme & internal rhyme?
poems that follow strict rules about lines, stanzas, rhythm, and rhyme.
What are traditional poems?
words have similar, but not identical, sounds
What is Slant Rhyme?
a syllable that is emphasized
What is a stressed syllable?
refers to the way a poem is laid out on the page.
What is form?
A modifier that describes a single person, place, thing, or action—without comparing it with something else
What is the positive form?
the repetition of consonant sounds either within or at the ends of words, as in the phrase wide muddy field
What is consonance?
an overstatement used to emphasize a point or create humor.
What is hyperbole?
poems that have no recognizable patterns or rules. Their lines do not rhyme in any regular way, and might not even be similar lengths.
What are free verse?
the voice that talks to the reader.
A Speaker
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more nearby words
What is alliteration?
A modifier that is used to compare two people, things, or actions (i.e. better, more powerful, taller, etc.)
What is comparative?
a groups of lines in a poem
What is a Stanza?
a word or group of words that describes another word or group of words.
What are modifiers?
the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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the repetition of sounds at the end of words, as in night and fright
What are rhythm and rhyme?
language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her own mind, what the writer is describing, using sensory details, or words and phrases that appeal to any of the five senses
What is imagery?
the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings. (examples are buzz, gargle, hiss, and thump
What is Onomatopoeia?
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more nearby words. (ie. Billy bought a brand new bat)
What is alliteration?
The place where a line ends
What is a line break?
the repetition of vowel sounds in words, such as in stone and slow
What is assonance?
a modifier that describes a noun (a person, place, thing, or idea) or a pronoun (a word such as I, she, he, or they)
What is an adjective?
a modifier that describes a verb (a word that expresses an action or a state of being), an adjective, or another adverb
gives human traits to something that is non-human. (i.e. the wind whistle through the trees)
What is personification?