Figurative Speech 1
This Figurative speech is an extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Hyperbole
This figure of speech is the repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Alliteration
The use of vivid, sensory language to create mental images and evoke emotions.
Imagery
When a line does not end with punctuation and the thought continues to a new line.
Enjambment
Rhyme Scheme, Rhythm, and Repetition
How a poem SOUNDS.
This Figurative speech is a direct comparison between two unlike things that have something important in common.
Metaphor
This figure of speech is a play on words that exploits multiple meanings of a word or similar sounding words, also used in 'Dad Jokes'.
Pun
The natural flow or beat of a poem created by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Rhythm
Haiku poem
Form of Poetry
Figurative Language and Imagery
How a Poem EXPRESSES
This figurative speech is the formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Onomatopoeia
This figurative speech is a stated comparison using like or as between two dissimilar things that have something in common.
Simile
The overall pattern and/or rules a poem follows.
Form
A pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables.
How a Poem LOOKS
This figurative language has repetition of the final sound or syllable at the end of a line.
End Rhyme
This figure of speech occurs when opposite or contradictory terms appear together.
Oxymoron
The underlying message, central idea, or universal truth an author conveys about topics like love, loss, or nature.
Theme
The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Epistrophe
What a poem SAYS
This figurative speech is the repetition of sounds within a line of poetry.
Internal Rhyme
This figurative language is sometimes called “imperfect rhyme” because the words sound close, but not exactly the same.
Slant Rhyme
Any intentional deviation from literal statement or common usage that emphasizes, clarifies, or embellishes both written and spoken language.
Figurative Language
The underlying message, central idea, or universal truth an author conveys about topics like love, loss, or nature.
Theme
Emotion and Tone
How a poem FEELS