figurative language and poetic devices

Question 1

speaker

Answer 1

persona through whose voice we hear the poem

Question 2

image

Answer 2

a concrete representation of a sense of impression, a feeling, or an idea.

Question 3

symbol

Answer 3

something that is itself and also stands for something else.

Question 4

simile

Answer 4

a direct comparison of 2 apparently dissimilar things using ‘like; or ;as’

Question 5

metaphor

Answer 5

an implied comparison of 2 apparently dissimilar things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 6

metonym

Answer 6

a comparison of two similar things in which one thing stands for something larger

Question 7

analogy

Answer 7

a comparison, often extended, between two different things in order to highlight a similarity between them

Question 8

conceit

Answer 8

extended use of methaphor for a section or for the entirety of a poem; an elaborately sustained comparison between 2 dissimilar things.

Question 9

Petrarchan conceit

Answer 9

love poems, compared using spurned, suffering suitors to describe their beloved (ie. eyes like the sun)

Question 10

zeugma

Answer 10

two parallel phrases in which corresponding words are placed in the opposite order (ie “though learned, well bred; though well-bred, sincere”)

Question 11

oxymoron

Answer 11

the juxtaposition of incongruous or contradictory terms (ie freezing fire”

Question 12

onomatopeia

Answer 12

a word which sounds like what it represents (buzz, hiss, rattle, bang)

Question 13

apostrophe

Answer 13

when an absent person, inanimate object (the sun), or abstract being (death) is addressed directly.

Question 14

personification

Answer 14

when an intimate object or abstract concept is given human attributes

Question 15

hyperbole

Answer 15

an exaggeration done in earnest or for comic effect

Question 16

rhetorical question

Answer 16

a type of question that does not actually need to be answered