Directly compares two things using a verb such as ¨is¨.
What is direct metaphor?
100
Comparison between two unlike things.
What is a simile?
100
Human qualities are given to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
100
The musical quality in poetry based on repetition?
What is rhythm?
200
Images are used to appeal to the reader´s senses and evoke stronger feelings about the subject.
What is the author´s purpose for using imagery?
200
Implies or suggests the comparison between two unlike things without directly stating it.
What is implied metaphor?
200
¨...a long red car
stalled with the hood up
roaring salsa
like a prize shark...¨
it is being compared to a PRIZE SHARK.
What is the car being compared to?
200
The inanimate object in ¨Boy at the Window¨is described as being content being outside in the cold and shedding a tear for the young boy weeping for him.
How is the snowman being personified?
200
The repetition of sounds within a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
¨Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass,
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.¨
What is an example of imagery that appeals to the sense of sight?
300
A comparison that is developed over several lines or through an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
300
The moon looks like a balloon.
What is an example of a simile?
300
The moon is a balloon.
What is an example of a direct metaphor?
300
The repetition of sounds within a line?
What is meter.
400
¨the queer old balloonman whistles
far and wee¨
What is an example of imagery that appeals to the sense of hearing?
400
Emily Dickinson compares hope to a bird.
What is the extended metaphor in the poem¨´Hope´is the thing with feathers¨?
400
¨All the world´s a stage.¨
by William Shakespeare
What is an example of a metaphor?
400
¨barbed wire fencing
which holds them in
like stolid cattle--¨
What is an example of simile?
400
The combination of stressed and unstressed syllables within a word.
What is foot/feet?
500
presents images from nature and every day life
What is the subject of a haiku?
500
When Dickenson uses the verb ¨is¨in the title ¨Hope¨ is the thing with feathers.
What is an example of a direct metaphor?
500
Without a string, the moon drifts across the sky.
What is an example of an implied metaphor?
500
The author may use this literary device to make the subject more relatable to a human´s emotions and more understandable for the reader.
What is the author´s purpose in using personification?