Figurative Language Vocabulary
Poetry Vocabulary
Drama Vocabulary
Figurative Language Examples
Poetry
100

A comparison using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

A row of words

What is a line?

100

The speaker or character who tells a story

What is a narrator?

100

POW BOOM POP SIZZLE

What is an onomatopoeia?

100

To entertain

What is the author's purpose of poetry? 

200

An extreme exaggeration

What is a hyperbole?

200

A group of lines

What is a stanza?

200

A conversation between characters

What is dialogue?

200
My feet are killing me!!!!

What is a hyperbole?

200

Life is happy

Life is good

Not to be sappy

But everything's good


The ______ is happy. 

What is the mood of the poem? 

300

A comparison without using "like" or "as"

What is a metaphor?

300

Repeating the same sound at the end of words - Wall, Call, Mall

What is a rhyme?

300

Notes in a drama to how the work is to be performed or staged; usually italicized and in parentheses

What are stage directions?

300

Pick a pumpkin to put in the pumpkin pie. 

What is alliteration? 

300

ABAB CDCD EFEF

What is rhyme scheme?

400

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or art

What is an allusion?

400

The atmosphere or feeling created by the author

What is mood?

400

Sections of a drama

What is an act?

400
She is a walking dictionary.

What is a metaphor?

400

"Whenever the trees are crying aloud" is in stanza ___ , line _____, and is an example of ___________.

2, 7, personification

500

An expression that has a different meaning than the literal meaning of the individual words

What is an idiom?

500

the basic rhythmic structure in verse, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables

What is meter?

500

Sections of an act

What is a scene?

500

I'll turn into a pumpkin if I'm not home on time!

What is an allusion? 

500

What is the rhyme scheme? 

AABBCCDEEFGD

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