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Terms
Forms of Comparisons
Poetic Devices
Sound
Poetic Forms
100
Hyperbole
What is a deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis
100
Simile
What is a comparison of two seemingly unlike things using a word of comparison
100
caesura
What is a speech pause occurring within a line
100
onomatopoeia
What is the term for words that sound like they mean
100
a stanza
What is a group of lines forming a unit in a poem
200

Olfactory and Auditory Imagery

What are the terms for imagery that you can smell and hear?

200
metaphor
What is a comparison of two seemingly unlike things
200
denotation
What is the dictionary meaning of a word
200
rhythm
What is a pattern of sounds; the natural rise and fall of language
200
a couplet
What is a two-line stanza
300
Paradox
What is a statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet express a possible truth
300
A conceit
What is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs the entire text
300
connotation
What is the term for what a word suggests beyond its literal meaning
300
euphony
What is the term for grouped sounds that effectually are smooth and pleasant
300
a quatrain
What is a four-line stanza
400
allegory
What is a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface
400
Metonymy
What is a term applied to something with which it has become closely associated
400
apostrophe
What is the term for addressing someone absent or dead as if they were present or alive
400
cacophony
What is the term for grouped sounds that are effectually rough and/or harsh
400
a sestet
What is a six-line stanza
500

Symbol

A symbol is anything that hints at something else, usually something abstract, such as an idea or belief. A literary symbol is an object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.

500
Synecdoche
What is the term for a part of something used to signify the whole or vice versa
500
allusion
What is a reference to an event, person, or text
500

The imagery term used for words that create sound.

What is auditory imagery.

500

Meter

What is the pattern of measured sound units that reoccur regularly in lines of verse