Examples
"Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed"
What is alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as the c in curved crook
What is alliteration?
A comparison of two unlike things using the word like or as
What is a simile?
The highwayman learns of the sacrifice Bess has made for him at this time
What is the following dawn?
A description of what is happening in each stanza
What is the meaning of each stanza?
"But he loved the landlord's daughter--
The landlord's black-eyed daughter"
What is repetition?
The pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in each line
What is rhythm?
A description of an object or animal, a place, or an idea as if it were human or had human qualities
What is personification?
This happens to Bess in "The Highwayman"
What is she kills herself?
A group of lines in a poem
"His eyes were hollows of madness"
What is a metaphor?
The use of words (made-up or real) whose sounds suggest their meanings
What is onomatopoeia?
A comparison between two unlike things that does not contain the word like or as
What is a metaphor?
The animal that the author compares the train to in "The Railway Train"
What is a horse?
Uses creative comparisons to help readers picture things in new ways
What is figurative language?
I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious step
What is personification?
The repetition of sounds at the end of words as in me and see
What is rhyme?
This is a quality the author uses in "The Railway Train" that only belongs to humans
What is complaining?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
"Then, punctual as a star"
What is a simile?
The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once
What is repetition?
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is about a person that feels this from nature
What is peacefulness?
A poem with a repeating pattern