Figurative language definitions
This type of figurative language gives qualities of a person to an object.
What is personification?
I need the kind of love
A supernova glowing in the dark
What is a metaphor?
What are lines?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
WHAT TONE DOES THE POET CREATE WITH THIS COMPARISON?
What is adoration?
This type of poems has 14 lines and a set rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
This type of figurative language is a reference to a famous person, place, or thing.
What is allusion?
It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
What is a simile?
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of poem
What is rhyme scheme?
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
What does the speaker mean?She loves her person so much that their love will live on even after they have died.
This type of sonnet is likely to be about love. It ends with a rhyming couplet.
What is Shakespearean?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye—not even his—could have detected anything wrong.
What is hyperbole?
This is division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit
What is a stanza?
Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
What does the author mean in this stanza?
Though we wish we could change it, the future/passing of time is inevitable.
This type of poem has 19 lines.
What is a villanelle?
This type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land; B
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch
What is allusion?
This is two lines that are grouped together and rhyme. Shakespearean sonnets end with this.
What is a couplet?
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
WHAT IS THE TONE OF THESE LINES?Besides having 19 lines, this is a distinct feature of a villanelle, and therefore the reader should pay close attention to it when reading the poem.
What is repetition/lines 1 and 3 are repeated?
This type of figurative language is something that uses the senses to paint a picture with words.
What is imagery?
Yes, he has been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions; but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.
What is personification?
In an Italian sonnet, you should pay close attention to line 9 because that is where this typically occurs.
What is a shift?
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What is the author's tone?
What is pleading, inspiring, etc.
An Italian sonnet may introduce this in the first 8 lines, followed by this in the last 6.
What is a problem and solution?