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Figurative Language
Examples of Fig. Lang.
Types of Poetry
Elements of Poetry
Poetry Vs Prose
100
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
Break a leg
What is idiom?
100
Poems in which the first letters of each line spell out the subject.
What is acrostic?
100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is stanza?
100
_______ is the verse form of literature.
What is poetry?
200
the use of extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
Larry licked lots of lollipops!
What is alliteration?
200
A poem that tell a story.
What is a narrative?
200
A feeling aroused in the reader by the author.
What is mood?
200
______ is the story form of literature.
What is prose?
300
The quality of giving human characteristics to non-human objects.
What is personification?
300
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is personification?
300
A Japanese poetic form that has 17 syllables in 3 short lines.
What is haiku?
300
The use of words or details that appeal to the senses and create a picture in your mind.
What is imagery?
300
Narrator is to prose as _______ is to poetry.
What is speaker?
400
The use of repeating initial consonant sounds to create an effect or mood
What is alliteration?
400
For me time is money.
What is metaphor?
400
A poem that shows opposites; it takes two antonyms and describes them, meeting in the middle of the poem.
What is diamante poetry?
400
A _______ is a song that tells a story.
What is lyric?
400
True or False: Only prose can tell a story.
What is false?
500
Language expanded beyond its everyday literal meaning.
What is figurative language?
500
Jumbo shrimp
What is oxymoron?
500
Softly the breeze blows: far clouds draws apart, and for an instant--the moon. is an example of what type of poetry
What is haiku poetry?
500
Repetition of syllable sounds, often at the end of a line.
What is rhyme?
500
The oldest form of literature is
What is poetry?