💬 Figurative Language
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
Words that end in the same sound.
What is rhyme?
Repeating the same structure to link ideas.
What is parallel structure?
A short part taken from a bigger work.
What is an excerpt?
A comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Where one line ends in a poem.
What is a line break?
When only the final consonant sound matches (crumb / home).
What is slant rhyme?
Repeating words at the start of lines.
What is anaphora?
A poem about writing poetry itself.
What is an ars poetica?
A comparison that hints but is not stated directly.
What is an implied metaphor?
The blank space between stanzas.
What is a stanza break?
The pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
The attitude of a piece of writing.
What is tone?
Referring to a well-known person, place, or work.
What is allusion?
Words or phrases that go beyond their dictionary meaning.
What is figurative language?
The shape or look of a poem.
What is form?
A 19-line poem with repeating lines and rhyme.
What is a villanelle?
Words or topic the writing is about.
What is content?
Words the writer uses to talk to someone not there.
What is apostrophe?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
A four-line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
A person or thing the writer talks to that is not present.
What is apostrophe?
A sentence style poets use to emphasize similarity between ideas.
What is parallel structure?
The art of writing about poetry, or a poem about writing poetry.
What is an ars poetica?