Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"...
What is a simile?
Repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words (usually at the beginning of the word)...
What is alliteration?
Greek for "mask".
What is persona?
"My little horsen must think it queer
to stop without a farmhouse near."
Name the device Robert Frost uses in this line of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
What is personification?
In Katy Perry's song Firework, name the figure of speech used in the following lines,
"Baby you're a firework."
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to something that is not human...
What is personification?
Term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes...
What is onomatopoeia?
The attitude of the speaker toward the subject of the poem.
What is tone?
"He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow."
Name the figure of speech Rober Frost uses in these lines from "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
What is hyperbole?
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind
Wanting to start again?"
Name the poetic device used in these lines.
What is a simile?
A deliebrate exaggeration or overstatement
What is hyperbole?
Repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same...
What is assonance?
The narrator of the poem...
What is the speaker?
Identify the sound device Robert Frost uses in these lines from his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
"He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake."
What is alliteration?
Identify the firgurative language used in the following statement.
"My teacher is like he who must not be named."
What is allusion?
Direct comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"...
What is metaphor?
Use of harsh sounding words intended to create an inharmonic effect.
What is dissonance?
This term refers to the central idea behind a poem, or the "universal truth"
What is theme?
Identify the two allusions presented in the first two lines of the poem "The Weaver".
"My life is but a weaving, between my God and me,
I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily."
My life compared to a weaving
and
God as the weaver
"Like a lightening bolt, your heart will blow
And when it's time, you'll know"
Name the two poetic devices used in the line above.
What is simile and hyperbole?
a reference to something that is well-known without directly stating it...
What is an allusion?
A rhyme in which sounds are similar but not exactly the same...
What is slant rhyme or near rhyme? May also take "imperfect rhyme".
Poets develop tone through the use of figurative language, imagery, word choice and sentence structure. What is another word for "word choice"?
What is diction?
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the night."
In the second line of this stanza, what sound device is being used?
What is assonance?
"I am silver and exact.
I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful-"
In this poem by Sylvia Plath, what object is she personifying?
What is a mirror?