Fig. Language
Describes one thing as if it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
“luminous pink petals that have/never felt loneliness,” lines 11-12 of “The Rider”
What is personification?
Stella’s Star Sentinel
What is alliteration?
You have cheesy puffs
Give me all your cheesy puffs
I will not say please
What is a haiku?
“if he rollerskated fast enough his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him”
What is “The Rider”?
Gives human qualities to something that is not human.
What is personification?
“O foolish ducklings/you know my old green pond is/watched by a weasel!” lines 1-3
What is a haiku?
repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is rhyme?
Little Ms. Muffet, sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Along came a spider
That sat down beside her
And scared Ms. Muffet away
What is a limerick?
“see how he dives from the rocks with a zoom!”
What is “Seal”?
Use ‘like’ or ‘as’ to compare two apparently unlike things.
What is a simile?
“With measured beat and slow/like a sexton ringing the village bell,” lines 16-17 of “The Village Blacksmith”
What is a simile?
orange object
What is assonance?
songlike poems that tells a story, often dealing with adventure and romance
What are ballads?
“this old woman no longer cares”
What is “Loo-Wit”?
Anything that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
the form of poetry used in “The Highwayman”
What is narrative poetry?
crash, woosh, squeak
What is onomatopoeia?
What is a rhyming couplet?
“it sits looking over the harbor and city”
What is “Fog”?
Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
“Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot!” line 67 of “The Highwayman”
What is onomatopoeia?
“How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck would?”
What is repetition?
poems shaped to look like subjects
What is “The Cremation of Sam McGee”?