Poetry
Techniques
Figurative Language
The Basics
Free for all MEMBEAN
100
A structured form of rhyme
What is a rhyme scheme?
100
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor?
100
An exaggeration that adds emphasis to a word
What is hyperbole?
100
The person from whom's perspective the poem is written from.
What is speaker?
100
It is love, it is life
What is membean?
200
Creating pictures through different senses, such as kinesthetic and auditory.
What is imagery?
200
A paragraph in poetry, often separated by one or two blank lines.
What is stanza?
200
Word choice
What is diction?
200
The use of the same word, phrase or idea multiple times.
What is repetition?
200
Tim Rinsma
Who is membean?
300
Giving animals or inanimate objects human like qualities
What is personification?
300
A comparison that uses "as" or "like"
What is simile?
300
The time and place
What is setting?
300
The form that the poem follows.
What is structure?
300
In all of us
Where is membean?
400
It is the "weather" of the poem
What is mood?
400
It is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.
What is enjambment?
400
When two or more words start with the same letter
What is alliteration?
400
A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
What is irony?
400
All day, everyday
When is membean?
500
The attitude of a writer toward the reader throughout the poem.
What is tone?
500
The basic rhythmic structure of the poem.
What is meter?
500
A reference that is often related to the bible
What is allusion?
500
A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing, and is written the way that it is heard.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
It just is
How is membean?
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