Figurative Language Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Metaphor | when two things are compared without using like or as EX: the branches of the trees where fingernails scratching at my bedroom window |
Hyperbole | a figure of speech with extreme exaggeration in order to make a point EX: our soup is deeper then the sea |
Personification | when nonhuman things are given human like attributes and characteristics EX: The snowflakes danced on the ground |
Simile | an imaginative comparison that uses like or as EX: as cold as ice |
Imagery | a style of writing that appeals to the readers scenes and paints an image in their head |
Idiom | a phrase that the individual words that don't communicate a meaning but a whole phrase does EX: It's raining cats and dogs |
Verbal Irony | when what is said is the opposite of what is implied |
Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows something that the character doesn't |
Situational Irony | when the opposite of what you think is going to happen happens |
Poetry | a genre of literature that expresses ideas, images, or emotions with very few words |
line | rarely a full sentence but it is usually a phrase |
Prose | blocks of text arranged in paragraphs |
Stanza | a group of lines |
Ballad | a poem set to music |
Sonnet | discusses a question and an answer in fourteen lines |
Free Verse | no set rules |
Rhyme | when endings sound the same |
End Rhyme | when the end of each line rhymes |
Alliteration | when words in a line start with the same sound |
Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes within a poem |
Narrative Poetry | tells a story |
Lyrical Poetry | expresses personal emotions or thoughts with a musical quality( i.e, rhyme, alliteration, repetition) |
Voice | the authors writing style or the speaker |
Speaker | the perspective/person who is telling the story |
Internal Rhyme | when two or more words rhyme in the same line |
Onomatopoeia | when words are spelled like the sound it makes |
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