Figures of Speech quiz (E3H/R)

Idioms

a phrase that means something different from the individual words in it

Simile

compare two things using like or as

Metaphor

compare two things without using like or as

Alliteration

same beginning consonant sound

Onomatopoeia

words that imitate real sounds

Personification

give human qualities to non-human things

Hyperbole

extreme exaggeration to make a point

euphemism

An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

synecdoche

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

metonymy

substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it

rhyme

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

rhyme scheme

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of the word

alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds

iambic

U/

trochaic

/U

spondaic

//

meter

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

monometer

one foot

dimeter

two feet

trimeter

three feet

tetrameter

four feet

pentameter

five feet

syllables

Beats in a word

speaker versus author

speaker = person speaking in the poem
author = person who wrote the book

lines

phrases or words in a stanza

stanza

A group of lines in a poem