Figurative Language
What type of figurative language is a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually using like or as?
Simile
What literary device involves repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
What is a paragraph in a poem?
Stanza
What is the feeling the reader gets from reading a poem?
Mood
This chair is as hard as a rock.
Simile
What type of figurative language is an indirect comparison of two unlike things usually calling one thing another
Metaphor
What literary device includes words that mimic the sounds they make?
Onomatopoeia
What is a four-line stanza in a poem?
Quatrain
What is the author's attitude toward the subject he/she is writing about?
Tone
The phone screamed at me to answer.
Personification
What type of figurative language gives human characteristics to nonhuman things?
Personification
What literary device is the use of purposeful repeating of words or phrases?
Repetition
What is it when words at the end of lines sound similar?
Rhyme Scheme
Theme
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
Idiom
What type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration to prove a point?
Hyperbole
Which literary device uses the five senses to appeal to the reader?
What is it when two lines in the same line rhyme?
Internal Rhyme
What is the REASON behind writing the poem called?
Author's Purpose
This pillow is a fluffy pink cloud.
What type of figurative language is a common phrase whose meaning does NOT follow its literal definition?
Idiom
What is it when an author makes a nonliving thing a CHARACTER?
Anthropomorphism
What is the flow of the poem that's created by stressed and unstressed syllables?
Rhythm
What is it called when the last two lines of every stanza rhyme?
Chain Rhyme
I'm so hungry, I'm going to die!
Hyperbole