Figurative Language Devices
What is metaphor?
Giving non-human objects human like qualities
What is personification?
"The snowflakes are falling like dancers"
What is simile?
The persona of the writer
What is the speaker?
Identify the rhyme scheme:
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them Sam I am.
I do not like them in a boat.
I do police them with a goat.
What is AABB?
The occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or close words
What is alliteration?
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
She sells seashells by the seashore
What is alliteration?
The author's attitude in the poem.
What is tone?
Who is the speaker in the following:
"Lie back, daughter, let your head
Be tipped back in the cup of my hand"
Who is a mother/father/parent/guardian?
A statement that appears to be contradictory, but has some truth
What is paradox?
Two opposite or contradictory ideas are joined (ex: jumbo shrimp)
What is oxymoron?
Your enemy's friend is also your enemy
What is paradox?
The way we, as the reader, feel about the poem
What is mood?
What is the Shakespearian sonnet rhyme scheme?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
An indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance
What is an allusion?
A polite way of saying something harsh
What is euphemism?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!"
What is hyperbole?
The lesson or overall message of a work of literature
What is theme?
What is the occasion?
Music, when soft voices die,/Vibrates in the memory/Odours, when sweet violets sicken,/Live within the sense they quicken,/Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,/Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;/And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,/Love itself shall slumber on.
What is a memory or daydream?
The repetition of the part of the sentence (ex: I have a dream that one day..I have a dream that my..I have a dream today)
What is anaphora?
When two or more words repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds
What is assonance?
I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless
What is assonance?
When the poem takes place (daydream, memory, an actual event)
What is occasion?
Paraphrase it:
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away.
Again, I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
The speaker wrote a girls name "upon the strand/beach" but the waves washed it way. The speaker did it again and the same thing happened which caused the speaker pain.