Terms
Terms
Terms
Terms & Examples
Examples
100
a comparison of two unalike things using the words like or as
What is a simile?
100
a comparison of two unalike things without using like or as
What is metaphor?
100
an absurd exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
100
repetition of a sound
What is rhyme?
100
his shoes, twin pets that snuggle his toes
What is a metaphor?
200
a group of lines
What is a stanza?
200
a unit of verse (poetry)
What is a line?
200
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
200
a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry
What is meter?
200
rain-beaten, sun-beaten, a scuff of green at their tips
What is imagery?
300
giving non-living things or animals human traits
What is personification?
300
when the sound of the word suggests the meaning of the word
What is onomatopoeia?
300
a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general is written this way
What is verse?
300
cloth like a sail, rubber like a lifeboat on rough sea
What is simile?
300
ABABCB is an example of what term from Annabel Lee
What is rhyme scheme?
400
a poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
400
the feeling created in a piece of writing
What is mood?
400
language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, hear)
What is imagery?
400
from racing to the drinking fountain a hundred times in one day
What is hyperbole?
400
blue in rubber boots
What is alliteration?
500
the author's message
What is theme?
500
the voice in a poem (not necessarily the author's)
What is speaker?
500
pattern of end rhyme
What is rhyme scheme?
500
to cool his shoes, the tongues hanging out exhausted
What is personification?
500
"eternal love" would be an example of this term from Annabel Lee. Hint: it tells us the author's message
What is theme?
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