FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT
POETIC STRUCTURE
POETIC DEVICES
POETIC DEVICES IN CONTEXT
100

giving an object in a story human characteristics

what is personification

100

I love waking up too the smell of bacon, the sizzling of the oil

what is imagery

100

ABAB CDCD EE

what is rhyme scheme

100

a word that represents a sound

what is onomatopoeia

100

the sun is blinding. 

The lights are blinding. 

The screens are blinding. 

I feel as if I am blinded

what is repetition

200

comparing two unlike things

what is a metaphor

200

the forest was singing because the wind was forcing its way through it

what is personification

200

I like the day

Night is my dismay

what is couplet

200

repetition of a consonant

what is consonance

300

a play on two different meanings of the same word

what is pun

300

"What do you mean we are broke? Steven has like billions of dollars!"

what is a hyperbole

300

my friends keep calling me shrewd and clever...

what is denotation
300

repetition of a vowel

what is assonance

400

a reference too something such as a book, movie, mythology, etc.

what is allusion

400

"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" He yells as he sprays his nerf gun at our group

what is allusion

400

This text your currently reading

Looks like the answer to this question

Act like this is part of a poem

what is stanza

400

She sells seashells by the seashore


what is alliteration

500

the repetition of a certain phrase throughout

what is anaphora

500

humanity and technology could be up against each other in the future

what is juxtaposition

500

Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall,

All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men

Cannot put Humpty-Dumpty together again.

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