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figurative language
sound devices
Poetry
Literary terms
simile,metaphor,
alliteration, onomatopoeia,
100
a comparison using like or as
What is simile?
100
repettion of same consonant sound
What is alliteration?
100
a long narrative poem about a hero
What is epic?
100
a person or force the opposes the protagonist
What is antagonist?
100
The man was as tall as a tree.
What is simile?
200
states that one thing is something else
What is metaphor?
200
words that imitate the sounds associated with the object they refer to
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a mournful poem that honors someone who is dead
What is elegy?
200
to entertain, describe, explain, persuade
What is author's purpose?
200
The river was a winding snake in the forest.
What is metaphor?
300
a speech form or expression that is peculiar
What is idiom?
300
in poetry, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhyme?
300
a Japanese form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables
What is Haiku
300
Language that emphasizes sensory impressions to help the reader of a literary work see, hear, feel, smell, and taste the senes described in the work.
What is imagery?
300
I could sleep for a year.
What is hyperbole?
400
a figure of speech in which things are endowed with human qualities
What is personification?
400
repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
400
a light humorous poem with a regular rhme scheme of "aabba"
What is Limerick?
400
The central character in a story. The action revolve around this character.
What is protagonist?
400
My big brother bought a baseball.
What is alliteration?
500
a figure of speech that is an exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
a character who is not developed as an indicidual but as a collection of traits...example "mean girls"
What is stereotype?
500
a poem tht contains fourteen lines
What is sonnet?
500
speech, writing, or other attemps to influence ideas or opinions
What is propaganda?
500
Don't put your eggs in one basket!
What is idiom?