front 1 oxymoron | back 1 a figure of speech where two opposite things appear together to make a new meaning |
front 2 idiom | back 2 a well-known saying or expression that is used to emphasize a point |
front 3 irony | back 3 when what is said or done is the opposite of what's expected/intended |
front 4 simile | back 4 a comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as |
front 5 hyperbole | back 5 an extreme exaggeration |
front 6 alliteration | back 6 the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are at the beginning of the words |
front 7 personification | back 7 giving non-human things human qualities |
front 8 pun | back 8 a saying that is a play on words (joke) |
front 9 onomatopoeia | back 9 the process of making a word that uses the same sound it describes |
front 10 consonance | back 10 use of repeated consonant sounds within a word (not the first letter) |
front 11 assonance | back 11 use of repeated vowel sounds within words (loud owl shouts) |
front 12 allusion | back 12 a reference to something popular (TV character, movie, book, etc.) to emphasize a point |
front 13 line | back 13 a row of words in a poem |
front 14 stanza | back 14 a "paragraph" of lines in a poem |
front 15 enjambment | back 15 when a sentence is split across multiple lines in a poem |
front 16 anaphora | back 16 repeated words/phrases at the beginning of multiple lines to make a point |
front 17 meter | back 17 the rhythm of the syllables in a poem |
front 18 rhyme scheme | back 18 pattern of rhyming words at the end of rows (uses ABCs to label) |
front 19 repetition | back 19 repeated words or phrases |
front 20 imagery | back 20 words that help you see, hear, taste, touch, or smell |
front 21 tone | back 21 the author's attitude about their topic |
front 22 mood | back 22 the feeling the reader gets when they read a poem |
front 23 symbolism | back 23 when an something in the poem represents a deeper concept |
front 24 free verse | back 24 poem with no rhyme scheme nor rhythm |