Figure of Speech
A specific device or kind of figurative language.
Similes
Similies are comparisons between similar things made by using the words "like" or "as".
Ex: They were as quiet as mice when they were trying to sneak up on their friend.
Ex: They were as quiet as mice when they were trying to sneak up on their friend.
Metaphors
Metaphors like similies are coparisons between two unlike things but metaphors don't contain the words "like" or "as".
Ex: Life is full of twist and turns you have to chose the right way to end up in the right place.
Ex: Life is full of twist and turns you have to chose the right way to end up in the right place.
Allusion
An allusion is when you refer to a person, place, or event to describe something else.
Ex: In A Wrinkle in Time there were a lot of allusions such as Meg describing the man as the whit rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.
Ex: In A Wrinkle in Time there were a lot of allusions such as Meg describing the man as the whit rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.
Alliteration
An allliteration is when an initial consanant is repeated.
Ex: Don't dilly daily down dirty driveways.
Ex: Don't dilly daily down dirty driveways.
Onomonopia
Onomonopia is when the words are used to describe a sound.
Ex: Comic books are usually the things that contains the most onomonopia.
Ex: Comic books are usually the things that contains the most onomonopia.
Personification
Personification is when an inaminate object is given human qualities.
Ex: The rusty old chair yelped when he sat down on it.
Ex: The rusty old chair yelped when he sat down on it.
Irony
Irony is when the thing you expect to happen doesn't but the opposite does.
Ex: The man put up a sign that said "No posting of signs on public property" on public property.
Ex: The man put up a sign that said "No posting of signs on public property" on public property.
Imagery
Imagery is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
Ex:The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.
This poem is written by T.S. Elliot.
Ex:The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.
This poem is written by T.S. Elliot.
Rhythm ABAB
A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
Ex:When I consider how my light is spent (a)
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (b)
And that one talent which is death to hide, (b)
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent (a)
To serve therewith my Maker, and present (a)
My true account, lest he returning chide; (b)
"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" (b)
I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (a)
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need (c)
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (d)
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state (e)
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (c)
And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (d)
They also serve who only stand and wait." (e
This poem is written by Milton and is titled On His Blindness.
Ex:When I consider how my light is spent (a)
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (b)
And that one talent which is death to hide, (b)
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent (a)
To serve therewith my Maker, and present (a)
My true account, lest he returning chide; (b)
"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" (b)
I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (a)
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need (c)
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (d)
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state (e)
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (c)
And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (d)
They also serve who only stand and wait." (e
This poem is written by Milton and is titled On His Blindness.
Shakespearean Sonnet
A shakespearean sonnet is a poem that is 14 lines long (3 quatrains and one cuoplet), uses the correct rhyme scheme (abab,cdcd,efef,gg), and has 10 syllable lines.
Example:Let me not to the marriage of true minds(a)
Admit impediments. Love is not love(b)
Which alters when it alteration finds,(a)
Or bends with the remover to remove:(b)
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark(c)
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;(d)
It is the star to every wandering bark,(c)
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.(d)
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks(e)
Within his bending sickle's compass come:(f)
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,(e)
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.(f)
If this be error and upon me proved,(g)
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.(g)
This poem is written by William Shakespeare.
Example:Let me not to the marriage of true minds(a)
Admit impediments. Love is not love(b)
Which alters when it alteration finds,(a)
Or bends with the remover to remove:(b)
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark(c)
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;(d)
It is the star to every wandering bark,(c)
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.(d)
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks(e)
Within his bending sickle's compass come:(f)
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,(e)
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.(f)
If this be error and upon me proved,(g)
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.(g)
This poem is written by William Shakespeare.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that is a combination of seemingly contradictory words.
Example:roaring silence, little bit big, and pretty ugly.
Example:roaring silence, little bit big, and pretty ugly.
