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Figurative Language & Poetry Terms
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Figurative Language Examples
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The repetition of the same consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem.
What is alliteration?
100
Popcorn: I hear the pop, pop, pop, I smell something sweet, I see something white, I feel something soft, I taste something plain, What could it be? It's Popcorn!
What is sense poetry?
100
This is where the first letters of the lines spell out a word if you read them vertically.
What is acrostic?
100
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
Allusion
100
Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Simile
200
A word having a sound that is similar to another.
What is rhyme?
200
They are all gone away, The house is shut and still, There is nothing more to say Through broken walls and gray, The wind blows bleak and shrill, They are all gone away Nor is there one today, To speak them good or ill There is nothing more to say Why is it then we stray Around the sunken sill? They are all gone away And our poor fancy play For them is wasted skill, There is nothing more to say There is ruin and decay In the House on the Hill: They are all gone away, There is nothing more to say.
What is villanelle?
200
A poem that follows no specific metrical pattern and usually does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
200
Compares two unlike things directly. It does NOT use like, as or resembles.
Metaphor
200
I wanted her to show up I crossed my fingers
Idiom
300
Is the pattern of stressed and unstressed words that create a beat, as in music.
What is rhythym?
300
Watermelon Juicy, sweet Dripping, slurping, smacking So messy to eat Yummy
What is cinquain?
300
This poem tells of an event. They were often used to spread the news, provide entertainment, or create a "bigger than real life" story.
What is a ballad?
300
An expression that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements.
Idiom
300
How sweet the sobbing violin!
Personification
400
The use of a word whose sound mimics its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
There was an old man with a beard Who said, "it’s just how I feared! Two owls and a hen Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard.
What is Limerick?
400
A form of unrhymed Japanese poetry (usually about nature), which attempts to bring about an emotional response.
What is a Haiku?
400
Is language that appeals to our 5 senses.
Imagery
400
Oh, never, if I live to a million, Shall I feel such a grievous pain
Hyperbole
500
A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, or resembles.
What is a simile?
500
WITH Pegasus upon a day, Apollo, weary flying, Through frosty hills the journey lay, On foot the way was plying. Poor slipshod giddy Pegasus Was but a sorry walker; To Vulcan then Apollo goes, To get a frosty caulker. Obliging Vulcan fell to work, Threw by his coat and bonnet, And did Sol’s business in a crack; Sol paid him with a clarinet. Ye Vulcan’s sons of Wanlockhead, Pity my sad disaster; My Pegasus is poorly shod, I’ll pay you like my master.
What is sonnet?
500
A poem that expresses personal and emotional feelings.
What is lyric?
500
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
Stanza
500
Don't worry about the Alex She's all bark and no bite.
Idiom Metaphor Hyperbole