Figurative Language
It is a comparison of 2 unlike things using the word "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A set of words that ends for a specific reason.
What is line?
Swish, swish, swish / went the little goldfish / As he swam around his bowl
What is onomatopoeia?
Comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as".
What is metaphor?
A set of words that ends for a specific reason.
What is a stanza?
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun".
What is contrast?
Repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.
What is a repetition?
An exaggeration that can't possibly be true
What is hyperbole?
Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
An audible pattern in verse.
What is rhythm?
Did you ever have / have the feeling / there's a / ZAMP / in the / LAMP? / Or a NINK / in the / SINK? / Or a WOSET in the CLOSET?
What is rhythm?
Describing the differences between two or more things.
What is contrast?
A word or phrase that represents something other than its literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
Giving human characteristics to objects or animals.
What is personification?
The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of the line.
What is rhyme?
"Nature's first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold."
What is rhyme?
"Torn turned and tattered / Bowed burned and battered"
What is alliteration?
A seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that highlights a truth.
What is a paradox?
The repetition the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.
What is alliteration?
The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
"And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is".
What is a paradox?
Part of something that stands for the whole.
What is a synecdoche?