Types of Poems
Figurative Language 1
Figurative Language 2
Literary Terms
Examples of Figurative Language
100
A Song or songlike poem that tells a story
What is a ballad?
100
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
AABB ABAB ABCB
What is a rhyme scheme?
100
Swoosh! Bang! Pop!
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
An exaggerated Statement to heighten effect
What is a Hyperbole?
200
A poem that tells a story
What is a Narrative Poem?
200
A comparison between 2 unlike things NOT using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse
What is a hyperbole?
200
A group of lines forming a unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
200
The main message or underlying meaning of a literary work
What is theme?
300
Usually a brief poem which express an emotion.
What is a Lyric Poem?
300
An example of... Sally sells super salad at the special sandwich shop
What is alliteration?
300
The trees were weeping while the wind was wailing and screeching
What is personification?
300
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is personification?
300
The atmosphere or feeling within a literary work
What is mood?
400
A long narrative poem centering around a single hero
What is an Epic Poem?
400
Repetition of sounds in words that appear close to each other in a poem
What is Rhyme?
400
He was dead as a doornail
What is a simile?
400
A line of poetry
What is a verse?
400
The narrator of the literary work and refers to him or herself as I, me, my, we
What is first person POV?
500
A type of poem written on the occasion of a death
What is an Elegy?
500
A word, a phrase, or a line that is repeated regularly in a poem or a song usually at the end of a stanza
What is a refrain?
500
Her hair was silk
What is a metaphor?
500
Concrete details that appeal to the senses. Words and phrases that describe.
What is imagery?
500
The narrator of a story is someone outside of the literary work and refers to the characters by name, or he, she, they
What is third person POV?
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