Figurative Language (PART 1)
A comparison between two things that uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Heroic poetry that celebrates the good deeds of a hero
What is an epic?
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
A group of lines of poetry
What is a stanza?
Repetition of sounds for artistic effect
What is rhyming?
Giving humanlike characteristics to nonhuman objects
What is personfication?
Verses that are intended to be spoken by the author his or herself
What is dramatic poetry?
Words so descriptive they create a vivid image in the reader's mind
What is imagery?
What is a couplet?
Repetition of consonant sounds in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different
What is consonance?
Words that sounds like their meaning
What is an onomatopoeia?
A poem or song that narrates a story in stanzas; passed down in folk culture
What is a ballad?
Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration?
A stanza of four lines with alternating rhymes
What is a quatrain?
A resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables between their vowels
What is assonance?
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
Poetry that uses the effects of meter, rhyme, and form, especially fixed forms such as sonnets or villanelles
What is formal poetry?
A phrase that has a non-literal, figurative meaning attached to it
What is an idiom?
Poetry that is open to pattern; non comforming and rhymeless
What is free verse?
A feeling created in the reader by a literary work
What is mood?
Repeating words or phrases that have already been said for emphasis or effect
What is repetition?
Highly musical verses that express the feelings of the speaker
When something isn't exaggerated enough
What is an understatement?
A story told in verse
What is narrative poetry?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience or topic
What is tone?