Figurative Language
The comparing of two things by using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A type of poem that tells a story, involves a hero, and has hundreds of lines.
What is an epic?
This is the grouping of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?
nay, lay, day, say are examples of this.
What are rhymes?
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What is English 9 or 9th grade English or English?
This is a complex comparison where two things are talked about as if they are the same.
What is a metaphor?
This is a type of poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
This is saying lines or words again and again in a poem for a specific purpose.
What is repetition?
This is how you decide how a poem rhymes.
What is a rhyme scheme?
This is the text that we read about a dystopian society.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This is discussing a thing as if it is human.
What is personification?
A poem that has fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. It also has a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet or Shakespearean sonnet?
This is two lines that come right after one another that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
This man wrote both Romeo and Juliet and at least 135 sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The author Harper Lee wrote this text that we read in class.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This is a type of comparison that goes on over the course of the entire poem or for several lines of poetry.
What is an extended metaphor?
This is a short, three line poem that originated in Japan.
What is a haiku?
Sonnets are divided into these groups.
What are quatrains?
What is read aloud or heard spoken?
The story "The Scarlet Ibis" is mainly told through this form of relating a story.
What is a flashback?
This is an exaggeration to make a point. It is heightened language.
What is hyperbole?
This type of poem is deliberately irregular and perhaps improvisational.
What is free verse?
The number of stanzas found in a haiku.
What is one?
This is the type of person who writes poetry.
Who is a poet?
This is the year that Mr. Duncan was born.
What is 1976?