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Figurative Language

Metaphor, simile, personification, and onomatopoeia, to express ideas or feelings in a fresh way.

Metaphor


compare two apparently unlike things without using the words like, as, than, or resembles.

Simile

Comparisons using connecting words.

Personification

Language that attributes human qualities to non-living things.

Onomatopoeia

Use of words whole sound imitates its meaning

Imagery

Descriptive language to create word pictures.

Stanzas

Grouping of lines

Couplets

Have two lines.

Quartrains

Have four lines.

Sound Device

Achieve a musical quality

Rhythm

Pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of words in a sequence

Rhyme

Repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables.

Alliteration

Repetition of the initial consonant sound of words.

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby wrds

Concinance

Repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the separating vowels differ

Repetition

The use of any language element more than once

Free Verse

No set matter or rhyme scheme

Narrative

The writer tells a story in the verse

Epic

A long narrative about an adventure or hero

Ballad

Song-like narrative about an adventure or romance

Dramatic

The writer tells a story using a characters own thoughts of statement

Lyric

A brief poem in which the author expresses the feelings of a single speaker

Haiku

Poem containing three non-rhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

Sonnet

14 lined lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme.