Figurative Language Terms

A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things without using like or as.

"Boom!" is an example of personification.

The ______________ in poetry refers to the recurrence of patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Repeats consonant sounds in a quick occurrence in the same line. "I nodded nearly napping suddenly come a tapping".

An exaggerated statement used to emphasize an idea or make a point.

The repetition of "nevermore" in Poe's The Raven is what type of figurative language?

Annabel Lee's narrator describes jealous angels who covet the love he shares with Annabel Lee. This is an example of...

Which line from The Raven is an example of simile?

Define Synecdoche

What figurative language is this from Poe's The Raven? Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...

What is the literary term that means the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines or a poem or song?

A pun is a play on words.

Poe uses allusion in his poem, "Annabel Lee," when he includes...

The repetition of vowel sounds.

Poe uses personification when he gives the raven the ability to answer the speaker's questions.

The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer.

"The wind came out of the cloud by night/Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee" shows Poe using which literary term?

What literary term compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

Comparing 2 things in order to highlight a similarity; expressing a set of like relationships between 2 sets of terms