Figurative Language
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
The use of descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
The author’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
A single line in poetry
What is a verse?
When one thing stands for another (like a dove for peace).
What is symbolism?
A comparison without “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
“The pie smelled of cinnamon and butter.” →Which sense is used?
Smell
The emotional feeling created for the reader.
What is mood?
The group of lines in poetry
What is a stanza?
A brief reference to a famous person, place, or event.
What is an allusion?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
“Her voice was velvet.” → What sense is used?
Sound/Touch—double imagery
A poem describing a rainy day with words like “gloomy, grey, heavy” creates what mood?
Sad/depressed
Poetry that has no rhyme and no regular meter.
What is free verse?
“Who am I, the one telling this story in rhyme?”
What is the narrator or speaker?
An extreme exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
Name two senses being appealed to in “The warm bread melted on my tongue as golden crust crackled.”
Taste & Sound
A playful and humorous poem likely has what kind of tone?
Lighthearted/whimsical
The arrangement of words, lines, and stanzas in a poem is called what?
Structure
In literature, night often symbolizes ______.
Death/ending/darkness
“The classroom was a zoo.” → What poetic device is used?
Metaphor
The phrase “icy silence”appeals to which two senses?
Touch & Sound
Give one word that describes the tone of this line: “The soldier marched on, fearless in the face of death.”
Brave/defiant/serious
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
What is meter?
A mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird symbolizes what?
Innocence/harming the innocent