Type of figurative language that gives nonhuman subject human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
Author of the poem "The Raven."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
Who wrote "Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly."
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
Type of figurative speech exemplified by the words "dreams die" or "happiness and harmony?"
What is alliteration?
200
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is rhyme?
200
A type of figurative speech in which "like" or "as" is used to make comparisons between unlike ideas/objects.
What is a simile?
200
Author of "Dreams."
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
Who wrote "Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, Bells, bells--...?"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
Type of figurative speech exemplified by "Life is a barren field..." or "'Hope' is the thing with feathers..."
What is a metaphor?
300
A word or phrase which creates a sensory experience in words (i.e., appeals to the five senses.)
What is imagery?
300
Type of figurative speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. (Comparison is implied.)
What is a metaphor?
300
Author of "The Seven Ages of Man" who often wrote in blank verse.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
Who wrote, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players...?"
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
Type of figurative speech exemplified by "Continuous as the stars that shine" or "Keep house as if the address were your heart?"
What is a simile?
400
The use of words to imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines.
What is blank verse?
400
Author of "'Hope' is the thing with feathers--"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
Who wrote, "For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude?"
Who is William Wordsworth?
400
Type of poetic devise used in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. "A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted..."
What is anaphora?
500
The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables.
What is assonance?
500
The continuation of a clause or sentence over a line-break in poetry.
What is enjambment?
500
Author of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
Who is William Wordsworth?
500
Who wrote "He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands?"
Who is Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
500
Type of poetic device exemplified in these lines from Eulogy for a Hermit Crab:
"You were consistently brave
On these surf-drenched rocks...."