Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Type of poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
The over-arching lesson
What is theme?
A set of lines grouped together
What is a stanza?
"The fog crept silently into the valley"
What is personification?
Type of poem that has no set pattern or rhyme
What is free-verse?
The feeling you get when you read a poem
What is mood?
A unit of measure in poetry
What is a line?
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
What is a simile?
Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing
What is personification?
Type of poem that is set to music
What are lyrics?
The author/poet's attitude about the subject
What is tone?
The repetition of sounds
What is rhyme?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
What is alliteration?
Beginning sounds of nearby words are the same
What is alliteration?
Type of poem with 3 lines and 17 syllables, usually about nature
What is haiku?
Word choices that are not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
A unit of 2 lines that usually rhyme
What is a couplet?
"Would you believe that my sheep, Pete, gave a speech at the beach last week?"
What is assonance?
Vowel sound inside nearby words is the same
What is assonance?
Type of poem where the words are arranged linearly from the subject, and describe the subject
What is an acrostic poem?
Descriptive elements that paint a picture in your mind
What is imagery?
A unit of 4 lines that sometimes has a rhyming pattern
What is a quatrain?
"The storm was a dark gray wave that seemed to crash down over her"
What is metaphor?