Hot Diggety Dog Go Big Daddy! Omma do this! Mo Betta I aint mad atcha!
100
What is rhyme?
This is the sound between words or the endings of words, especially when they are used at the ends of lines of poetry
100
What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
100
What is an idiom?
This is an expression that has a meaning that is only known to a particular group of people.
100
What is close reading?
This is what we do when we carefully analyze a piece of literature in detail.
100
What is an understatement?
This is saying less than what is meant, for effect.
200
What is alliteration?
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Example: "lovely little ladies"
200
What is a simile?
A direct comparison of two unlike things.
Example: Your breath is like a rotting corpse.
200
What is irony?
When an author says the opposite of what he/she 
means for effect
200
What is prose?
This is written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
200
What is a pun?
A play on words, meant to be funny.
300
What is consonance?
This is the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words (first and last, odds and ends, stroke of luck, sent and went, pitter and patter)
300
What is a metaphor?
Direct comparison of two unlike things, not using like
or as
300
What is tone?
An author’s attitude toward his/her subject or in other words, the general character or attitude of piece of writing.
300
What is allusion?
An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work
300
What is a paradox?
An apparent contradiction, which is nevertheless somehow true.
400
What is assonance?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
proud round cloud or white high night
400
What is hyperbole?
An exaggeration or overemphasis for a humorous effect.
400
What is diction?
A writer’s choice of words and way of arranging 
sentences
400
What is connotation?
An idea or feeling that a word conjures in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
400
What is allegory?
This is a literary device that in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.
Think: Animal Farm
500
What is onomatopoeia?
These are words that imitate sounds.
500
What is symbolism?
This is when a word that has meaning in itself yet is used to represent something entirely different.
500
What is blank verse?
This is a poem without a rhyme scheme or metrical system.
500
What is denotation?
This is the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
500
What is imagery?
This is the representation through language of sense experience; language that appeals to the senses - seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling.






Poetry and Figurative Language Analysis

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