Figurative Language by the Dictionary
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
The author of a poem.
What is a poet?
An example of this poetic device is:
The flowers danced wildly in the wind.
What is personification?
Similar sounds at the ends of words or lines.
What is rhyme?
Poetry that does not have a rhyme scheme or pattern is called ___________ verse.
What is free verse?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
An example of this poetic device is:
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
The dog is really bad.
He makes me shake my head.
Sometimes he makes me mad.
And then my face turns red.
What is ABAB?
Point of view told by an outside narrator, not in the story. Uses he, she, it, they, them.
What is third person point of view?
A common expression in which the words mean something different than their literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
One row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
What form of figurative language is the poem using?
Mr. Sun is elated
and bright
He never yells
and does not fight.
What is personification?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
The world is red,
It's all in my head.
I can't seem to find,
Where is my mind.
What is AABB?
Type of poem with four lines in each stanza.
What is a Quatrain?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
Repeating a word in a poetic line/poem used to show importance.
What is Repetition?
An example of this "rockets rushing in a race."
What is alliteration?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
I love to hear the waves of the ocean
I love to feel the rush of the wind.
I love to see the blue of the water.
I love to smell the sunscreen on my skin.
What is no rhyme scheme?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of multiples lines in a poem.
What is anaphora?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
The attitude or feeling of a piece of writing.
What is the tone?
An example of this is "its raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
A rhyme that works if you change the pronounction of one word slightly
What is a slant rhyme?
When a metaphor is carried on throughout multiple lines or an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?