Poetry/Language Vocabulary

Question 1

Idiom

Answer 1

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. its raining cats and dogs, see the light)

Question 2

Symbolism/Allegory

Answer 2

things in narrative/poetry that is itself, and also represents/stands for something else. Like a flag that represents a country, or Aslan The Great Lion in Chronicles of Narnia represents Jesus Christ

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

Uses the word “is” to compare something. A figure of speech in which a particular phrase or word is applied to an object, action, etc., to which it is not literally applicable. Used to compare seemingly unrelated or opposite things. (Stephen is so skittish, he is straight up a cat)

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

Uses “like” or “as” to compare something (Stephen is as skittish as a cat)(Stephen is like a cat for being so skittish)

Question 5

Imagery

Answer 5

Sensory descriptive language (visual, audible, smell, taste, touch)

Question 6

Literal Language

Answer 6

Uses words exactly according to their conventionally accepted meanings or denotation

Question 7

Figurative Language

Answer 7

Uses words in a way that deviates from their conventionally accepted definitions in order to convey a more complicated meaning or heightened effect. Figurative languages are often created by presenting words in such a way that they are equated, compared, or associated with normally unrelated meanings. (Metaphors, similes, idioms, symbols, etc)