Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as".
Simile
The golden rays of sun shone through the window.
Visual
4 lines of poetry is called what?
Quatrain
The first letter of each line spells out a word or message.
Acrostic
Focuses on the repetition of consonants.
Consonance
Gives human characteristics, emotions, and behavior to animals and inanimate objects.
Personification
The trees rustled in the wind.
Auditory
6 lines of poetry is called a what?
Sestet
Does not rhyme or have a rigid structure.
Free Verse
A word that represents a sound in the poem.
Onomatopoeia
It's raining cats and dogs is an example of what?
Hyperbole
The stench of rotting garbage was overwhelming and made the girl sick to her stomach.
Olfactory
5 lines of poetry is called what?
Cinquain
Lyrical poem of 19 lines with only 2 rhymes repeated throughout.
Villanelle
Repetition of vowel sounds.
Assonance
I was so fast, I was the blur.
metaphor
Her mouth watered as the taste of the sour candy hit her tongue.
Gustatory
Lines usually broken with a comma, period, semicolon, or other punctuation. A brief pause.
End-stopped
A formal or ceremonious poem that focuses on a person, place, thing, or idea.
Ode
Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Cat got your tongue is an example of what?
Idiom
The payment steamed as the rain fell upon the road.
Visual
A strong pause or stop within a line. Causes a longer pause for effect or reflection.
Caesura
Long, grand narrative poem. Tells the heroic journey of a person or group.
Epic
When two words at the end of two lines sound similar.
Rhyme