1. 200300400500100200300400500100200300400500100200300400500100200300400500100 Poetic Language What Am I? Sound Terms Lonely Terms More What Am I?

2. What literary term is a comparison between 2 unlike things using the words “like” or “as”?

3. SIMILE

4. What term refers to the language and descriptions a writer uses to create imagery? Hint: You can see, hear, taste, touch, and smell it!

5. SENSORY DETAILS

6. What term refers to an extreme exaggeration an author uses to make a point?

7. HYPERBOLE

8. What term refers to a comparison between two unlike things where one thing is said to be another?

9. METAPHOR

10. What type of figurative language gives human or living qualities to something that is NOT human or living?

11. PERSONIFICATION

12. “She holds her head up high, like a statue in the sky.” --from “Hello, I Love You” by The Doors

13. SIMILE

14. “Your eyes have died.” --from “Daniel” by Elton John

15. PERSONIFICATION

16. “Daniel, you’re a star in the face of the sky.” (2) --from “Daniel” by Elton John

17. METAPHOR & PERSONIFICATION

18. “I’ve loved you for a million years.” --from “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” by Stevie Wonder

19. HYPERBOLE

20. “You hear the door slam…You feel the cold hand…The foulest stench is in the air…” --from “Thriller” by Michael Jackson

21. SENSORY DETAILS

22. This device uses words that represent sounds

23. ONOMATOPOEIA

24. This term refers to the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together in a single line of poetry.

25. ALLITERATION

26. What term refers to rhymes that occur at the ends of lines in a poem?

27. END RHYME

28. What term refers to the pattern of rhyming words in a poem? An example would be “ABCBDB.”

29. RHYME SCHEME

30. This term refers to the speaker’s (sometimes the poet’s) attitude toward the subject of the poem.

31. TONE

32. This term refers to a group of lines of a poem that form a single unit, kind of like a paragraph.

33. STANZA

34. This term refers to repeating a word, phrase, or entire line of a poem to create rhythm or emphasize an important idea.

35. REPETITION

36. This term refers to the musical quality of a poem that is produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.

37. RHYTHM

38. What type of poetry tells a story?

39. NARRATIVE POETRY

40. What type of poem has no fixed rhythm or rhyme pattern?

41. FREE VERSE

42. “The flames danced in the fireplace” is an example of what type of figurative language?

43. PERSONIFICATION

44. “My prom date looked like a train wreck” is an example of what type of figurative language?

45. SIMILE

46. I am the poetry term that refers to the pictures a poet creates in a reader’s mind. These pictures are often created with sensory details.

47. IMAGERY

48. I am the life lesson you can learn from reading a poem (or a story).

49. THEME

50. “…Collecting your jar of hearts.” --from “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri

51. METAPHOR