Identifying Figurative Language
"O my Luve's like a red, red rose."
What is a simile?
The dictionary definition of the word.
What is denotation?
Realistically describes actual people, places or things
What is descriptive poetry?
"It is for because I have n'other way/To cloak my care, but under sport and play."
What is end rhyme?
Groups of related lines in poetry
What is a stanza?
"Hope is the thing with feathers."
What is a metaphor?
The feelings and ideas associated with a word.
What is connotation?
Tells a story
What is narrative poetry?
"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew."
Lines of poetry that end with a punctuation mark, or naturally stop where the line still makes sense, encourage the reader to pause before moving on to the next idea.
What is an end-stopped line?
"I have pulled day and night, till my hair has grown white, but nobody answers this bell!"
What is a hyperbole?
What is a couplet?
Expresses deep feelings and emotions
What is lyric poetry?
"In clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,/In a made expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire."
What is Identical Rhyme?
Lines of poetry that end in the middle of a thought and do not make sense without the line that comes next.
What is an "enjambed line"?
"Yesterday upon the stair/I met a man who wasn't there"
What is an oxymoron?
A long poem that tells the story of a hero or legend.
What is an epic poem?
A serious poem written to express extreme emotion
"How I've waiting for this day to come,/Today my love waits for me at home."
What is eye rhyme?
Poems that follow specific rules with poetic structure.
What is fixed verse?
"Created half to rise, and half to fall;/Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;"
What is a paradox?
A tool that can be used to place emphasis on certain ideas to enhance the meaning of a poem (for example: word patterns).
What is repetition?
A poem that tells a story, usually of a romanticized character, in short rhythmic stanzas
What is a ballad?
"Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul,/And sings the tune without the words,/And never stops at all."
What is slant rhyme?
Poems that break the rules in poetic structure.