Identify the Term
Compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A group of lines in poetry (like a paragraph).
What is a stanza?
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."
What is a simile?
"The daffodils danced and tossed their heads."
What is personification?
A lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
A form of poetry without any pattern.
What is free verse?
"Her laughter, like tinkling bells" filled the room."
What is auditory imagery?
"All the world is a stage."
What is a metaphor?
The attitude a poem / the speaker of a poem implies.
What is tone?
Attributing human nature or characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
"She sells seashells by the seashore."
What is alliteration?
"Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel."
What is an allusion?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
A reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea.
What is an allusion?
A deliberate pause or break within a line of poetry, marked by punctuation.
What is caesura?
"The crisp autumn air smelled of pine trees, fallen leaves, and woodsmoke."
What is olfactory imagery?
"The god Mars cried out as loudly as nine or ten million men." -- The Iliad, Homer
What is hyperbole?
Using descriptive language to create a vivid picture for the reader that evokes the senses (visual, olfactory, auditory, tactile, gustatory).
What is imagery?
This device uses a related term or phrase to stand in for what it is.
What is metonymy?
A line of poetry that has no end punctuation and runs over onto the next line.
What is enjambment?
"Hey! Did you get new wheels?"
What is synecdoche?
"Lend me your ears!"
What is metonymy?
Figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole (or vice versa).
What is synecdoche?