Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two unlike object or ideas using "like" or "as
What is a simile?
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
What is alliteration?
"The lone and level sands stretch far away."
What is alliteration?
This type of line ends with a punctuation mark
What is an end-stopped line?
When a poem changes emotions, we call it a...
What is a tone shift?
This type of figurative language appeals to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste)
What is imagery?
Words that sound like what they are referring to, like "buzz"
What is onomatopoeia?
"When I behold, upon the night's starred face,/ Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance"
What is personification?
This type of line continues right on into the next line
What is an enjambed line? (or run-on line)
Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter is called...
What is blank verse?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike objects or ideas without using "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
Rhymes that occur within a line, not just at the ends
What is internal rhyme?
"They flash upon that inward eye"
What is metaphor?
What is a stanza?
What is where stanzas break?
This type of figurative language relies on exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The repetition of vowel sounds, as in "Sam Tanner"
What is assonance?
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
What is a simile?
A fixed system or pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
What is a rhyme scheme? (or end rhyme)
The metric foot indicated by u /
What is an iamb? (or "iambic")
This type of figurative language links two seemingly contrary elements in a way that makes sense, like "jumbo shrimp"
What is oxymoron?
A break or pause in the middle of a line, marked with | | in scansion
What is a caesura?
"Ten thousand saw I at a glance"
What is hyperbole?
Constant or recurring rhythm in a poem
What is meter?
The art of determining meter in a poem and marking it with u / symbols
What is scansion?