Poetry 1
A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two items that are not usually related. “Like” or “as” is used to make the comparison.
What is a simile?
The formation of a word by imitating the natural sound associated with the object or action involved.
What is onomatopoeia?
A literary device where vivid language is used to appeal to the reader’s senses. It creates a picture in the reader’s mind.
What is imagery?
A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to something else, but “like” or “as” is not used.
What is metaphor?
A type of figurative language in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
The main idea or the basic meaning of a literary work.
What is theme?
Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry instead of at the end. A single line can contain rhyming words or it can happen across multiple lines.
What is internal rhyme?
A character, setting, objects, or images that represent both themselves and larger ideas, give greater meaning.
What is symbol?
A literary device which creates interest by the recurrence of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of several words near each other.
What is alliteration?
A feeling or idea that a word suggests in addition to its literal meaning.
What is connotation?
The literal or dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds that occurs in two or more words near each other in a line of poetry or prose.
What is assonance?
A genre of literature that is written in verse and emphasizes the rhythmic use of words to create imagery.
What is poetry?
The last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.
What is end rhyme?
Whoosh, Bang, Creak, Tinkle
What is onomatopoeia?
Crown==royalty Aslan==Jesus-like character
What is symbol?
Once there was a tree. And she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. […] And the boy loved the tree very much. And the tree was happy. But time went by, and the boy grew older. And the tree was often alone--Shel Silverstein.
What is personification?
In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun--Stephen Crane.
What is a simile?
"My father brought to conversations a cavernous capacity for caring that dismayed strangers."
What is alliteration?
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”
What is a simile?
Coming home from the lake empty-handed, I figured the fish conspired to avoid me.
What is personification?
cheap vs inexpensive
intelligent vs nerdy
What is connotation?
I drove myself to the lake / and dove into the water.
What is internal rhyme?
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”--Benjamin Franklin
What is a metaphor?
What is a metaphor?