Definitions #1
Repetition of initial sounds
What is alliteration
Language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery
Where a poet chooses to end a line
What is line break
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance
“He hopped like a kangaroo”
What is simile
Applying human characteristics to nonhuman things such as animals, objects, or concepts
What is personification
Comparison using like or as
What is simile
Comparison between two unlike things where one thing is literally said to be the other
What is metaphor
Repetition of consonant sounds
What is consonance
“The sun smiled down on us”
What is personification
When expectations and reality differ - often in a humorous way
What is irony
Intentional exaggeration to make or emphasize a point
What is hyperbole
A grouping of lines in poetry
What is stanza
The use or creation of a word that imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes
What is onomatopoeia
"He was driving a million miles an hour!"
What is hyperbole
When something concrete and literal stands for something that is abstract and figurative
What is symbol
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory ideas or terms appear in conjunction
What is oxymoron
A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted by the author
What is foreshadowing
"All the world's a stage"
What is metaphor
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
What is oxymoron
Lines in poetry where the sentence continues into the next line without a pause at the break
What is enjambment
Repetition of initial words or phrases at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses
What is anaphora
Lines that break where there are natural pauses in speech like commas, periods, semi-colons, etc.
What is end-stopped line
In “The Gift of the Magi”, a wife sells her hair to buy her husband a new watch chain, but the husband sells his watch to get his wife a comb for her hair.
What is irony
"Bang!"
What is onomatopoeia