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Structure/Imagery
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Figurative Language
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100
A poetry paragraph
What is a stanza?
100

A rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry (rather than at the end).

What is internal rhyme?

100
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
Word choice intended to convey a certain effect; the vocabulary used by a writer.
What is diction?
100

A play on words based on the similarity of the sound between two words with different meanings

What is a pun?

200
An image that is disassociated with any specific instance.
What is an abstract image?
200

At the end of poetic lines, final consonant sounds are the same, but the vowel sounds are different

What is slant rhyme? (Also accepted: near rhyme, off rhyme, imperfect rhyme)

200

Using a visible object or sign to convey a deeper meaning.

What is symbolism?

200
A word’s dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
200
An effect created by a sharp contrast between what is expected and what is real.
What is irony?
300
Two rhyming lines of poetry.
What is a couplet?
300
Two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds.
What is rhyme?
300
Simile
What is a comparison of two things using "like" or "as" or "than"?
300
Use of contradictory words in the same phrase.
What is an oxymoron?
300

Similar to a refrain or chorus; the use of the same word or phrase to provide cohesion.

What is repetition?

400
Allusion
What is a brief direct or indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?
400
The beat of the poem made by stresses and pauses.
What is rhythm?
400
Personification
What is a thing, an idea, or an animal that is given human characteristics?
400
Onomatopoeia
What is an attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it?
400

Allegory

What is a story that uses symbolic fictional figures and actions to represent actual events or truths about human existence?

500
Concrete Image.
What is an image that is specific, visual, physical. Concrete images play to the five senses?
500
Alliteration
What is a sound device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series?
500
Metaphor
What is a statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense, it is not; a comparison using is/was, are/were (not like/as/than).
500
Connotation
What is a word’s associations, feelings, or suggestions beyond its dictionary definition?
500
Archetype
What is a constantly recurring symbol or motif in literature, painting, or mythology?