Figurative Language
Sound Devices and More
Common Verbs Essay Prompts
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Applied Terms
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An indirect comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
When a writer repeats consonant sounds in words that are close together in a piece of writing. Gerard Manley Hokins poem "Pied Beauty" has several example:  GLORY be to God for dappled things—   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;     For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;   Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;              And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.   All things counter, original, spare, strange;   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)     With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:                        Praise him.   GLORY be to God for dappled things—   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;     For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;   Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;              And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.   All things counter, original, spare, strange;   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)     With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change;                   Praise him.
What is Alliteration?
100
To make judgements about the quality or performance of something or someone based on a pre-determined set of criteria.
What is Evaluate?
100
To pick up on hints that the writer gives, or to piece together evidence and make an educated guess.
What is An inference OR what is to infer?
100
The two roads in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" represent or _____________ the decisions we all have to make in life. Fill in the blank.
What is Symbolize?
200
A concrete, tangible, or literal object that also comes to stand for or represent something abstract. For example, a rose represents love in many poems.
What is Symbolism?
200
A poem that does not follow a traditional rhyme pattern and often does not include rhyme at all.
What is Free Verse?
200
A verb that asks you to give a detailed account of something.
What is Describe?
200
The historical time period as well as the cultural surroundings and geographic location in which a story takes place.
What is Setting?
200
In Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice", fire symbolizes this.
What is Desire?
300
When inanimate objects or abstract idea/concept are given human characteristics. Often these characteristics are associated with an action.
What is Personification?
300
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. The orderly arrangement of musical sounds, often according to duration and periodic stress of a word or word elements.
What is Rhythm?
300
A verb that asks you to point out the similarities of two or more things?
What is Compare?
300
The speaker of a poem or song. It is also a mask or role that a person plays in a given situation.
What is persona?
300
This is the rhyme scheme of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem "Pied Beauty": GLORY be to God for dappled things—   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;     For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;   Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;              And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.   All things counter, original, spare, strange;   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)     With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:                      Praise him.  
What is abcabc dabdc?
400
When two unlike things are directly compared.
What is a metaphor?
400
Similarity of sounds between words or the ending of words, especially when those words occur at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is Rhyme?
400
A verb that asks you to give reasons, specific evidence, and/or quotations that support your answer, your opinion, your claim, your argument, etc.
What is Justify?
400
It is a term used to describe the specific facts, quotations from a text, or other relevant information that a person gives to support his/ her opinion, claim, argument, or judgement.
What is evidence?
400
What are the following examples of in Hopkins poem: rose-moles on trout, brinded cows, finches' wings, gear, and tackle?
What is Imagery?
500
When the reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know.
What is Dramatic Irony?
500
The pattern or design structure of the rhymes a writer uses in a poem. To analyze a poet's rhyming pattern, readers often use notations such as the following: abab cdcd efef gg OR aabb ccdd eeff.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
A verb that asks you to interpret the material youmare presented with by answering both the questions how? and why?.
What is Explain?
500
When a writer or speaker appeals to the audience by establishing his or her authority, credibility, reliability, or trustworthiness.
What is Ethos?
500
The tone of Hopkin's poem is _________ because of it's playful use of language and rhythm and also because of the words he uses. Words such as glory, dappled, original, and praise.
What is Celebratory, Happy, Or Joyous?
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