Figurative Language
This compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
This is when words repeat the same beginning sound.
What is alliteration?
This uses words to create pictures in your mind using the five senses.
What is imagery?
This is a single row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
This is the message or lesson the poet wants you to understand.
What is theme?
This compares two things by saying one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
This is when a word or phrase is repeated for emphasis.
What is repetition?
This is a short story or example used to explain an idea.
What is an anecdote?
This is a group of lines in a poem, often separated by space.
What is a stanza?
This explains why an author writes a poem and what they want the reader to think or feel.
What is author’s purpose?
This uses imaginative or creative language instead of literal meaning.
What is figurative language?
This is when vowel sounds repeat in nearby words.
What is assonance?
This is the speaker’s personality or the way the poem “sounds” to the reader.
What is voice?
This is the person who writes a poem.
What is a poet?
This is when you use clues from the poem and your own thinking to figure something out that is not directly stated.
What is an inference?
This type of figurative language is when something that is not human is given human actions or feelings.
What is personification?
This is a technique poets use to create sound effects, like rhythm, rhyme, or repetition.
What is a sound device?
This is the person who is “talking” in the poem.
What is the speaker?
In this poem:
The sun rises bright
Birds sing in the trees
The world starts to wake
Carried by the breeze
Each group of lines is an example of this.
What is a stanza?
This is the perspective from which the poem is told.
What is point of view?
Her smile was sunshine lighting up the room.
What is a metaphor?
Slow snow flows over the road.
What is assonance?
The warm, buttery popcorn melted on my tongue as the salty smell filled the air.
What is imagery?
n this poem:
The sun rises bright
Birds sing in the trees
Each row of words is an example of this.
What is a line?
This is the feeling the reader gets while reading a poem.
What is mood?