When an object/colour/image is used to represent an idea.

e.g. A rose might signify love; the colour black might represent death; a dove is an image of peace.

When you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else, even though it is not actually that “something else.”

e.g. This assignment is a breeze.

His words were daggers in my heart.

A repetition of hissing sounds in two (or more) words.

e.g. Sing a song of sixpence.

Conspiring cells of summer shells.

When a line in a poem moves to another line without a punctuation mark in between.

e.g. Before the sunrise

a chain of red clouds rise

and all else is in the darkness.

When a comparison is made between two things.

e.g. It was as cold as a snowy winter’s eve.

She ran, like a bullet from a gun, towards the finish line.

A poem that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not have a regular rhyme scheme.

e.g. Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall,

she walks

by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,

dying.

And round about there is a rabble

Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.

They shall inherit the earth.

In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive

and there will be no end for the children of the universe.

When two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound.

e.g. Go and mow the lawn.

The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle.

Using the 5 senses to create an image in the reader’s mind.

e.g. The carpet of bright flowers had a heady aroma. As I walked, I could feel their perfume choking my nostrils. (sight, smell, touch)

When something non-human (e.g. an object, an animal, a concept) is given human qualities.

e.g. The fire swallowed the entire forest.

Time had crushed me in the palm of his hand.

A word that sounds like the noise it is describing.

e.g. He heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.

What is tone?

What is hyperbole?

A two line stanza is a

A three line stanza is a

Narrative poetry is like narrative writing. Both tell a

A four line stanza is a

What is the purpose of figurative language?

Say whether the following are assonance, alliteration or onomatopoeia

Ruth ran rapidly to the river.

Johnny went here, there and everywhere

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains

the owl hooted in the trees

Gretta gathered green gumballs

the corn went pop in the microwave

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.