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Figurative Language
Definitions
Definitions
Definitions
Poems
100
Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The poet writes the poem, but the _________ tells the story or memory.
What is speaker?
100
A __________means both what it is literally and something beyond its obvious meaning
What is symbol?
100
A group of lines that form a division of a poem
What is stanza?
100
a) 5 line nonsensical poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA b) simple 5 line poem line 1 - one word of two syllables (may be the title) line 2 - four syllables (describing the subject or title) line 3 - six syllables (showing action) line 4 - eight syllables (a feeling or observation about the subject) line 5 - two syllables (describing or renaming the subject)
What is a) limerick b) cinquain
200
Blood seeped out of the wound like red teardrops.
What is simile?
200
What is imagery?
What is sense impressions include sight, sound, smell, taste, tactile (feeling or touch), uses words to create pictures, allows the reader to experience what the speaker is experiencing, make clear and concrete (or real) things that are abstract and difficult to understand
200
What the reader of the poem seems to be feeling
What is mood?
200
The feeling evoked in the reader upon reading the poem
What is mood?
200
a) 3 line, non-rhyming, 5-7-5 syllable poem b) 5 line, non-rhyming, 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count
What is a) haiku b) tanka
300
I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.
What is allusion?
300
The dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
300
What the speaker of the poem seems to be feeling
What is tone?
300
The emotional meaning of a word, which can be positive or negative
What is connotation?
300
a) 14 line rhyming poem (3 quatrains, 1 couplet) b) unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter (lots of Shakespeare!) c) 7 line, non-rhyming poem, shaped like a diamond
What is a) sonnet b) blank verse c) diamante
400
By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead / Their sad waters, sad and chilly
What is personification?
400
What is a concrete language? Provide two examples of concrete words.
What is tangible, describes things we can actually see or feel.
400
The repetition of vowel sounds (mad hatter)
What is assonance?
400
Speaking to or addressing a personified object or idea or a person who is not present or dead
What is apostrophe?
400
A poem that has no rhyme or regular meter
What is free verse?
500
Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting --
What is metaphor?
500
What is abstract language? Provide two examples of abstract words.
What is denotes things we understand the meanings of, but cannot see or feel: love, knowledge, justice
500
repetition at close intervals of the final consonants of the end of words (first, last)
What is consonance?
500
What are the three different types of irony?
What is situational, dramatic, verbal
500
a) two line stanza: b) three line stanza: c) four line stanza: d) five line stanza:
What is a) couplet b) tercet c) quatrain d) quintain or cinquain