Definitions 1
This figurative language technique implies a comparison between two relatively unlike things USING the words "like" or "as."
Simile
This figurative language technique is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
"Sally sold seashells by the seashore."
Alliteration
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
Simile
A group of lines forming a unit within a poem is called a....
This figurative language technique implies a comparison between two relatively unlike things.
Metaphor
A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.
Allusion
This example was found in the title of one of the poem's we read, emphasizing the words "... Doomed Youth."
Assonance
boom, roar, slam, POW
Onomatopoeia
The DICTIONARY definition of a word is called ___________________.
Definition
This figurative language technique gives human qualities to an animal, object, or abstract area.
Personification
This figure of speech is when incongruous or contradictory terms appear SIDE BY SIDE.
Oxymoron
"The sun smiled down on us."
Personification
"Be bold. Be brief. Be gone."
Anaphora
The FEELING or idea a word suggests in a poem or line of work is called a ___________________.
Connotation
This figurative language technique is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Anaphora
A comparison between two things in order to highlight a point of similarity; expresses a set of like relationships between two sets of terms.
Analogy
"The restaurant has a lot of hungry mouths to feed."
Synecdoche
"May the fourth be with you."
Pun
Figurative language can help develop _______________, often hinting at how an author or writer is feeling.
Tone
This figurative language is the repetition of vowel sounds.
Assonance
This figure of speech is when a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part.
Synecdoche
"Less is more."
Paradox
"The walking dead."
Name one of the possible themes given during discussion about the song "Wake Me Up."
*Various answers; teacher will decide*