Figurative Language
Compares two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
A poem with no set rhyme or meter.
What is free verse?
Gives human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
A single row of words.
What is a line?
Poetry written in iambic pentameter with no rhyme.
What is blank verse?
A direct comparison that does NOT use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
What is meter?
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and using iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
An exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
A natural pause or break within a line.
What is caesura?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
a shift in thought, emotion, or argument.
What is volta?
a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
What is a elegy poem?