Figurative Language 2019-2020

Line

• row of a poem
• A person who writes a poem.
• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
• a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

Poem

• A person who writes a poem.
• Looks like a paragraph found in a poem.
• A composition in verse.
• a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

Poet

• the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
• A person who writes a poem.
• The time and place of a story/poem
• The voice that talks to the reader in a poem.

Speaker

• The voice that talks to the reader in a poem.
• Looks like a paragraph found in a poem.
• A composition in verse.
• A person who writes a poem.

Stanza

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
• A composition in verse.
• Row of a poem.
• Looks like a paragraph found in a poem.

Refrain

• a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song
• A comparison without using like or as
• word choice, figurative language, structure, imagery, meter, rhyme scheme etc.
• the lesson or moral

Theme

• the subject of a poem
• Repetition of initial consonant sounds
• the lesson or moral
• An author's or speaker's choice of words

Diction

• The overall feeling created by the author
• Referring to cultural beliefs in that time period.
• The emotional response of the reader to the tone of the text
• An author's or speaker's choice of words

Rhyme

• The overall feeling created by the author
• Repetition of sounds at the end of words
• Repetition of initial consonant sounds
• Dictionary definition of the word

Alliteration

• epetition of initial consonant sounds
• The overall feeling created by the author
• Dictionary definition of the word
• The emotional response of the reader to the tone of the text