Poetic device
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
What is simile?
Identify the type of imagery used in the sentence:
Silence was broken by the peal of piano keys as Shannon began practicing her concerto
What is auditory imagery (sound)?
This playwright and poet is also known for his beautiful and complex sonnets. Its famous work is Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare.
This figurative device creates mental pictures or sensory experiences with words.
A fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
What is sonnet?
Directly comparing two things, stating one thing is another
What is metaphor?
Identify the type of imagery used in the sentence:
The bright sun was shining in the sky, without a cloud in sight.
What is visual imagery (sight)?
This poet often explores the relationship between humans and nature in his work.
Who is Robert Frost?
A poem that celebrates a person or event.
What is ode?
Short saying or poem that expresses an idea in a clever, funny way with a twist at the end.
What is epigram?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
Identify the type of imagery used in the sentence:
The air hung heavy with the intoxicating perfume of jasmine flowers blooming in the moonlight
What is olfactory imagery (smell)?
This American poet wrote the influential autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This sonnet by William Shakespeare compares a beloved to a summer's day, highlighting the fleeting nature of beauty.
What is "Sonnet 18"
Short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions.
What is lyric poem?
Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
Identify the type of imagery used in the sentence:
She bit into the tart, juicy lemon and winced at the pucker-inducing flavor.
What is gustatory imagery (taste)?
This Romantic poet is famous for his use of macabre themes and suspenseful stories.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter is called what?
What is formal poem?
Short, unrhymed poem that adheres to a specific three-line, seventeen-syllable format and originated in Japan
What is haiku?
Extreme exaggeration used to emphasize a point
What is hyperbole?
Identify the type of imagery used in the sentence:
The desolate lunar landscape stretched before them, a monochromatic expanse of craters and dust, broken only by the stark silhouette of their lone spacecraft.
What is visual imagery (sight)?
An american poet who was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, and wrote the poem, "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The works of this ancient Greek epic poet explore war, heroism, and the gods, influencing Western literature for centuries.
Who is Homer?
A long, narrative poem about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet.
What is epic?