Concepts
Imaginative comparisons to create images
What is figurative language?
A direct comparison, showing similarities between two different things
What is simile?
an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics
What is metaphor?
Sing to me, Autumn, with the rustle of your leaves.
Breathe on me your spicy scents that flow within your breeze.
What is personification?
Recurring use of a sound, a word, a phrase, or a line
What is repetition?
It means exactly what it says
What is literal language
involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis
What is hyperbole?
an object, idea or an animal is given human attributes
What is personification?
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all.
What is paradox?
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
Resources used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of poetry through the skillful use of sound
What is sound devices?
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance
What is allusion?
a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings
What is oxymoron?
Another age shall see the golden ear
Embrown the slope, and nod on the parterre,
Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned,
And laughing Ceres reassume the land.
What is allusion?
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
The reason some poets use sound devices in their work
What is emotional response?
an apparent contradiction that is actually true
What is paradox?
a type of figurative language in which a part of something is used to represent a whole (or vice-versa)
What is synecdoche?
No light, but rather darkness visible …
What is oxymoron?
Organizing rhyming words in a variety of patterns ( end rhyme or internal rhyme)
What is rhyme scheme?
This is what the use of figurative language create
What is an image?
a humorous play on words that exploits the different meanings of a word
What is pun?
a type of ironic understatement that uses negative terms to express a positive statement
What is litotes?
It’s not uncommon for something like this to happen.
What is litotes?
use of words that create the sound that they describe
What is onomatopoeia?