Poetry Terms Word Scramble
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Word | Definition |
Synesthesia | Using words that relate to one of the five senses to describe a situation from another of the five senses. |
Dead Metaphor | Metaphor so overused that its original impact has been lost. |
Personification | The giving of personality or life to inanimate objects or to ideas. |
Synecdoche | A part of something to stand for the whole. |
Simile | A comparison of two persons, things, or other elements, with the use of "like", "as", or "than". |
Hyperbole | An obvious exaggeration for the sake of effect without any attempt at deception. |
Rhetorical Question | Questions to which no answer is expected or which implies its own answer. |
Paradox | Statement which appears contradictory but actually presents a truth. |
Metaphor | A direct comparison without "like", "as", or "than". |
Symbol | A figure in which a concrete object is used to stand for an abstract idea; something that stands for something else. |
Litotes | An expression which actually says less than might be said; understatement; saying the opposite. |
Conceit | Unusual or surprising comparison between two very different things (special kind of metaphor or complicated analogy). |
Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at length and involving several points of comparison. |
Metonymy | The use of a word for another with which it is intimately connected. |
Allegory | A narrative in which character, objects, and events have underlying political, religious, moral, and social meanings. |
Oxymoron | Fuses two contradictory opposing ideas. |
Mixed Metaphor | When two metaphors are jumbled together, often illogically. |
Apostrophe | An address to the dead as if living; to the inanimate as if animate; to the absent as if present; to the unborn as if born. |
Enjambment | Carrying the poetic line to another line before completing the thought. |
Figures of Speech | A form of expression in which words are used out of the usual sense in order to make the meaning more specific; category that includes ways to create imagery. |
Juxtaposition | Placing two things side-by-side. |
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