Poetry Techniques Flashcards
What is a example of Onomatopoeia?
Bang, Boing, slam as the door slams shut.
What is a example of a simile?
The tree is as strong as the ground.
What is an example of a metaphor?
He was feeling blue.
Give an example of Assonance?
How now brown cow.
Give an example of personification?
The sun danced across the sky on the hot summers day.
Give an example of Alliteration?
I am cold and alone, on my tree root sitting as still as stone.
What is a linebreak?
A linebreak might emphasise or introduce a pause of silence.
What is Enjambment?
A sentence without a pause.
What is repetition?
Repeating a word or phrase three times.
Give a definition of imagery?
Repetition of senses.
Give a definition of assonance?
Repetition of the vowel sound.
Give an definition of hyperbole?
Exaggeration
Give a definition of a metaphor?
A figure of speech in which a figure of phrase is added to the object.
Give a definition of a simile?
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing.
What is a stanza?
A paragraph used in a poem.
