Poetry Flashcards
Examples of Idioms
Piece of cake
Go the extra mile
Get up on the wrong side of the bed
Pull the wool over your eyes
Idiom
An expression used in a particular language and cannot be taken seriously.
Imagery
Language that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses, sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell. It is also called sensory language.
Mood
Overall feeling
Tone
Writer’s or speaker’s attitude towards the subject or characters. Can often be described in a single adjective.
Diction
Writer’s word choice
Connotations
Emotional associations with the words
Figurative Language
It is imaginative language that isn’t supposed to be taken literally. Also know as figures of speech.
Similie
Uses like or as to compare 2 seemingly different things.
Metaphor
Compares 2 things without using like or as.
Personification
Gives human qualities to something nonhuman
Hyperbole
Exaggerates speech for emphisis.
Drawing conclusions
Arriving at an overall judgement or idea by pulling together several details.
Repetition
Repeating a sound, word, phrase, sentence, or group of lines
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of the words