Figurative Language Examples
"I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti." is an example of this poetic device.
What is a simile?
A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
What is a Couplet
My greatest love is my greatest pain.
This is an example of what literary device?
Metaphor
This literary device reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work. By conveying this attitude through tone, the writer creates a particular relationship with the reader that, in turn, influences the intention and meaning of the written words.
What is tone?
The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences. In Shakespearean sonnets, the pattern is ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
What is rhyme scheme?
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The "good night" represents or symbolizes this.
What is death?
This literary device deals with the secondary meaning of a word
Connotation
This poetic device describes the language of poetry. It is differentiated from everyday language and that which is commonly used in novels, by its style, vocabulary, and use of figurative language.
What is diction/poetic diction.
The freight with hate is late to state.
What is assonance?
The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
What is imagery?
The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat.
Iambic Pentameter