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Metaphor
From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “Nature’s first green is gold”, “Her early leaf’s a flower”?
Alliteration
From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “Her hardest hue to hold”, “So dawn goes down to day”?
Allusion
From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “So Eden sank to grief”, “Nature’s first green is gold”?
Personification
From the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, what figurative language is, “So Eden sank to grief”, “Then leaf subsides to leaf”?
Simile
From the poem, “Harlem”, what figurative language is, “Like a raisin in the sun”, “Like rotten meat”?
Alliteration
From the poem, “Harlem”, what figurative language is, “Sugar over - like a syrupy sweet”, “Does it dry up”?
Imagery
From the poem, “Harlem”, what figurative language is, “Like a raisin in the sun”, “Or crust and sugar over”?
Metaphor
From the poem, “O Captain! My Captain!”, what figurative language is, “The ship has weather’d every rack”, “The prize we sought is won”?
Alliteration
From the poem, “O Captain! My Captain!”, what figurative language is, “For you the flag flung”, “The ship is anchor’d safe and sound”?
Personification
From the poem, “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”, what figurative language is, “The edge of the sea concerned with itself”?
Alliteration
From the poem, “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”, what figurative language is, “Sweating in the sun”?
Mood
From the poem, “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”, what type of poetic element is, “A splash quite unnoticed/this was/Icarus drowning”?
Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of several words of a line of poetry or a sentence
Allusion
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Ballad
Songlike poem that tells a story usually dealing with adventure and romance
Character trait
Words that describe a character's personality or qualities that make them who they are
Elegy
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Exaggeration/Hyperbole
The obvious stretching of the truth/not meant to be taken literally
Flashback
A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time
Foreshadowing
A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted
Free-verse
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Idiom
An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Imagery/sensory language
Language that appeals to the senses
Inference
A conclusion one can draw from the presented details.
Irony
A contrast between expectation and reality
Lyric
A collection of verses and choruses, making up a complete song, or a short non-narrative poem
Metaphor
Comparing two unlike things, without using “like” or “as"
Mood
Feeling created in the reader by a poem or story. Words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration all work together to create this
Narrative
A poem that tells a story
Onomatopoeia
Use of words that sound like the noises they describe
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Point of view
The perspective from which a story is told
Refrain
Regularly repeated line or group of lines
Repetition
The use of any element of language - a sound word, phrase, or sentence - more than once
Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme
The repetition of sound words (sound/around; the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse (aabb)
Rhythm
Musical quality created by a pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables
Simile
Comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”
Sonnet
A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops one idea
Symbolism
When a poet uses an object to stand for something else
Theme
A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Voice
A writers distinctive use of language
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