Figurative Language Devices
Compares two or more things using "like" or "as."
What is a Similie?
The last word of two lines rhyme is called this.
What is End Rhyme?
The use of imagery, personification, metaphor, etc. in a poem.
What are Devices?
"You're familiar like my mirror years ago."
What is a simile?
You're familiar like my mirror years ago.
All of these poems have fourteen lines and a set rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
Compares two or more things without using "like" or "as."
What is a Metaphor?
You are identifying this when you are finding which words rhyme within a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme
The subject of the poem, usually identified from the title or first line of the poem.
What is the Topic?
"Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies"
What is alliteration?
Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies
These poems use their shapes or structures to further enhance the poem.
What are concrete poems?
Giving an inhuman object human traits or characteristics.
What is Personification?
Words in the same line begin with the same sound
What is alliteration?
Cannot be the name of the author; must be an identity or include a trait of some sort.
Who is the Speaker?
"You can go your own way"
What is assonance?
You can go your own way
This is the rhyme scheme of the octave in a what sonnet.
What is ABBAABBA and a Petrarchan Sonnet?
When invoking the five senses...
What is Imagery?
The same consonant sound appears multiple times in a line of poetry.
What is Consonance?
How the speaker feels about the topic.
What is the Tone?
"Your Midas touch on the Chevy door"
What is an allusion?
Your Midas touch on the Chevy door
This is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
A reference to something well-known or popular.
The same vowel sound appears multiple times in a line of poetry.
What is Assonance?
Emotions intended to be invoked while experience the piece.
"And hold your hand while dancing (A)
Never leave you standing (A)
Crestfallen on the landing (A)"
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The structure of a Shakespearean Sonnet
Three rhyming quatrains, ends with a rhyming couplet