Figurative Language/ Literary Devices
This kind of figurative language compares using like or as.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
What is Pun?
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
What is Repetition?
This kind of figurative languages uses sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The gray clouds cried drops of rain.
What is Personification.
This kind of poetic structure is a division of a poem consists of a series of lines arranged together in a usually repeating pattern of rhythm and rhyme.
What is Stanza?
The main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing.
What is Theme?
This kind of figurative language uses symbols to represent an idea.
What is Symbolism?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
What is Hyperbole?
This kind of poetic structure is a verse without rhyme.
What is Blank Verse?
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
What is Tone?
This kind of figurative language is an expression designed to call something.
What is Allusion?
Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet.
What is Alliteration?
This kind of poetic structure is the operating language of poetry, language that sets poetry apart from other kinds of speech or writing.
What is Diction?
The repetition of similar sounds – or consonants -in language.
What is Consonance?
This kind of figurative language is a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.
What is Extended Metaphor?
His tender heir might bear his memory.
What is Assonance?
This kind of poetic structure is the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of the line.
What is Enjambment?
The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.
What is Anaphora?