The term of a group of various types of speech that shouldn't be interpreted literally.
What is Figurative language?
100
"My love is continuous as the starts that shine"
What is Simile?
200
Repeating initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
200
"Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hooves were gone."
What is Alliteration?
200
A formal division of lines in a poem
What is Stanza?
200
Descriptive language that creates word pictures for the reader using the 5 senses.
What is Imagery?
200
"The sea swallowed the ship as it thrashed about in anger."
What is Personification?
300
Repeating vowel sounds in a word followed by different consonants
What is assonance?
300
"And the sea went down, down, down, down
and the birds flew higher and higher
As we crossed the ocean
And the shore drew near."
What is Repetition?
300
Pair of rhyming lines that expresses a single idea
What is a Couplet?
300
The device where a nonhuman object is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
300
"Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-wing bird / That cannot fly"
What is Metaphor?
400
Using a sound, word, or phrase more than once for musical effect or emphasis
What is Repetition?
400
"Some late entreating entrance,
While I pondered, weak and weary"
What is Assonance?
400
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, identified by different letters for each new rhyme
What is Rhyme scheme?
400
A comparison between two unlike objects using like or as.
What is Simile?
400
Oh if instead she'd left to me
The thing she took into the grave!-
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
What is Simile?
500
Repeating the same sounds at the end of words.
What is Rhyme?
500
The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.
What is Rhyme?
500
Identify the structure of the following answer:
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
What is a Couplet?
500
A comparison not using like or as where two unlike objects are made to look the same.
What is Metaphor?
500
"My grandmothers are full of memories
Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay
With veins rolling roughly over quick hands
They have many clean words to say"