Poetry Test Review Terminology Figurative Language Poetic devices Identify the device
A type of poem that emphasizes the personal thoughts and feelings of the poet (ie. songs, sonnets, odes, elegies). What is the lyric?
An idea that a word implies or suggests. What the connotation?
The structural division or any separation to divide a poem. What is the stanza or verse?
When the reader or audience knows something one or more characters do not. What is Dramatic Irony ?
A word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness to give a meaning beyond their ordinary one. What is figurative language?
A word or image that represents both itself and something else. What is a symbol?
An overstatement to emphasize a point. What is a hyperbole?
A play on words, using one word in more than one meaning. What is a pun?
Giving human characteristics to non- human forms. What is personification?
An indirect reference to a person, thing or event from mythology, history, literature or some other source What is allusion?
Saying the opposite of what is meant. What is verbal irony?
A type of poetry that tells a story (ballads) What is a narrative?
Saying less than one means. What is an understatement?
The representation of sense experience; images may appeal to one or a combination of our five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch. What is imagery?
“Life is a highway”. What is a metaphor?
She will crawl to the ball with her doll What is rhyme?
Please peel this peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. What is Alliteration?
“Life is like a box of chocolates”. What is a simile?
Swoosh! Crash! Boom! What is onomatopoeia?
Jumbo Shrimp! What is an oxymoron?