Poetry Terms & Figurative Lang. Review

Means extreme exaggeration

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Compares 2 unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Please put away your paints and practice the piano.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

They’re strong as rocks.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

What is alliteration?

• words that rhyme

• giving inanimate objects human capabilities

• a repeated consonant sound occurring at the beginning of words

• an extreme exaggeration

How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

I ate so much that I think I'm going to explode!

This sentence is a clear example of

• allusion

• idiom

• hyperbole

In the story A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, a penny-pinching and bitter Ebenezer Scrooge values money more than people.

What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?

Our neighbor has a reputation for being a Scrooge, so we don't even stop at his door any more when we're fundraising.

• The neighbor is very generous.

• The neighbor is very kind.

• The neighbor is very stingy.

• The neighbor is very jealous.

What is consonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry