Figurative Language
Using like or as to compare two things.
What is simile?
Using extreme illogical exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The specific syllable pattern in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
Repetition of consonant sounds within words.
What is consonance?
The space between stanzas, separating them and providing structure to the poem.
What are stanza breaks?
Giving a human quality to something non-human.
What is personification?
A word or phrase that imitates a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
Repeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas to provide emphasis and clarification.
What is repetition?
Repetition of vowel sounds within words, phrases or sentences.
What is assonance?
Space used to create aesthetics/art out of the poem that reflects the poem's inner meaning.
What is white space?
The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
Stating that one thing is another thing for comparison.
What is metaphor?
When the last words in two lines of poetry end the same.
What is end rhyme?
The specific arrangement of a poem.
What is form?
Emphasizes certain lines (catches the eye of the reader), creates a pause before the sentence (like phrasing or catching one's breath instead of a run-on or robotic stanza). Also helps differentiate the beginning of stanzas from the rest of the lines.
What is indention?
The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience.
What is imagery?
An expression that cannot be understood from the literal meanings of its separate words but only learned as a whole. Or an expression that holds a different figurative meaning to its literal meaning.
What is idiom?
When two words in the same line rhyme.
What is internal rhyme?
When the words in one line of a poem stop and a new line is started (does not have to be at the end of a sentence).
What are line breaks?
A reference to something or someone well known.
What is allusion?
The repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of several phrases or sentences.
What is anaphora?
When the word at the end of lines have similar sounds but not identical sounds.
What is slant rhyme?
Provides emphasis and structure to the poem. Long lines draw attention in stanzas with short lines. Also, long lines should leave the reader breathless, and short lines should feel like the reader is hyperventilating when reading the poem out loud. This helps the reader(s) feel the mood and pacing of the story in real life.
What is line length?