Fig. Lang 1
A comparison between two things.
Metaphor
A comparison between two things using like or as.
Simile
A group of words arranged together in a row.
Line
How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
14
The author's attitude toward the subject.
Tone
An extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
Personification
The repetition of final consonant sounds.
Consonance
How many lines are in a quatrain?
Couplet?
4
2
The reader's attitude toward the subject
Mood
Jokes that use the different meanings of a word (dad jokes)
Pun
The repetition of internal vowel sounds
Assonance
What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
The dictionary definition of a word.
Denotation
Words that imitate the sounds they are making.
Onomatopoeia
A phrase where the figurative meaning is different from its literal meaning.
+100 if you can provide an example as well
Examples vary
A group of lines separated from others.
Stanza.
How many syllables does each line in a sonnet consist of?
10
The figurative meaning of a word.
Connotation
When the audience knows something that the characters don't.
Dramatic Irony
A police officer gets robbed.
Situational Irony
The rhythm of the poem.
Meter
5 Meters, each meter consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter
Provide an example of a words denotation and connotation.
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