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Figurative Language
Sound Devices
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Poetry Terms
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A direct comparison of two unlike things using a being verb
What is metaphor
100
The repetition of the 1st letter of every word
What is alliteration
100
Words which sound alike, usually at the ends of lines of poetry
What is Rhyme
100
image, object, character, or action that stands for an idea (or ideas) beyond its literal meaning.
What is a symbol
100
The name of the author of a poem.
Who is a poet
200
"The tree knocked on the window" is an example of
What is personification
200
"BOOM" "CRASH" and "POW" are examples of
What is onomatopoeia
200
The pattern of rhymes in a stanza.
What is Rhyme Scheme.
200
Language which is meant to be interpreted or understood at another level.
What is figurative meaning
200
A group of lines in a poem are called ____________
What is a stanza
300
A comparison between two things using the word like or as.
What is a simile.
300
repetition of interior vowel sounds
What is assonance
300
The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.
What is Rhythm
300
Means exactly what it says; for example a rose is the physical flower, it doesn’t represent something else.
What is literal meaning
300
The overall feeling a reader gets after viewing a poem.
What is mood.
400
"I've told them a million times!" is an example of which technique?
What is Hyperbole.
400
What is the repetition of consonant sounds in a line or lines called?
What is Consonance?
400
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Today I Had a Rotten Day Today I had a rotten day. As I was coming in from play I accidentally stubbed my toes and tripped and fell and whacked my nose.
What is AABB
400
What is the literal meaning of "Getting Away With Murder"
What is getting away with killing someone.
400
An indirect or hidden reference to something the audience might know (such as events, people, and places in history or mythology or in order literary works).
What is an allusion
500
Identify at least 3 examples of figurative language in the following excerpt "from Queen Mab, Percy Bysshe Shelley How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean’s wave It blushes o’er the world; Yet both so passing wonderful!"
What is personification, metaphor, simile,
500
Give an example of alliteration.
Answers will vary.
500
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago, In the kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived, whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love, and be loved by me.
What is ababcb
500
What is the figurative meaning of "Getting Away With Murder?"
What is being allowed to do whatever you want with out consequences.
500
A literary technique whereby an author uses descriptive words which appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery