Strong
Figurative
Positive
LA
Poetry
100
a strong desire to do or accomplish something
What is resolve?
100
the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects or non-human creatures
What is personification?
100
a wonderful thing
What is marvel?
100
the choice and order of words in a text
What is diction?
100
writing in verse like a song and not prose like a story
What is poetry?
200
strong and faithful
What is stalwart?
200
a comparison of two things not using the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
200
someone or something that is respected and admired
What is esteemed?
200
an author's attitude or feeling towards their subject
What is tone?
200
the subject or topic about which a person thinks, writes, or speaks about
What is theme?
300
a strong opinion or belief in something
What is conviction?
300
a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
300
an action to get something back
What is reclaim?
300
the dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
300
the same letter or sound at the beginnings of a group of words
What is alliteration?
400
to represent certain ideas or principles
What is embody?
400
an exaggerated statement that is not literal
What is hyperbole?
400
a speech that talks positively and praises someone who has died
What is a eulogy?
400
the meanings and feelings that we associate with words, which may be very different from their dictionary meanings
What is connotation.
400
A famous American poet who liked to represent images in his poems
Who is William Carlos Williams?
500
a way of convincing or persuading your reader by telling them that you have credibility or that you are an expert in something
What is ethos?
500
words that imitate a sound or suggest what they stand for (e.g., KAPOW, BANG, SWISH, WHOOSH!)
What is onomatopoeia?
500
kindness and wishing to do good for others
What is benevolent?
500
the use of words or phrases that is different from their dictionary meaning
What is figurative language?
500
A poem about death written by Pablo Neruda
What is "Only Death"?
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