Elements of Poetry and Figurative Language

How is rhythm created?

(a)  

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Rhyme

• Words/syllables/ accents of sylables

What are the three types of rhyme?

• Consonance

• End rhyme

• Slant rhyme

• Internal rhyme

• Assonance

What type of rhyme is in the following example?

James and Betty lived there lives

but the thought of each other burned like a thousand knives

• slant rhyme

• start rhyme

• end rhyme

• Internal rhyme

What is free verse?

• A type of rhythm

• 
• end rhyme

• an organised pattern of rhyme

What are examples of Repetition?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• repeating words

• assonance

• repeating phrases

What is a simile?

• a comparison of two or more things without using like or as

• an exaggeration

• a comparison of two or more things using like or as

• giving a nonhuman thing human character

• a sound word

Onomatopoeia

• a comparison of two or more things without using like or as

• a comparison of two or more things using like or as

• a sound word

• giving a nonhuman thing human character

• an exaggeration

Metaphor

• giving a nonhuman thing human character

• a comparison of two or more things without using like or as

• a comparison of two or more things using like or as

• a sound word

• an exaggeration

Personification

• giving a nonhuman thing human characteristics

• a comparison of two or more things without using like or as

• an exaggeration

• a sound word

• a comparison of two or more things using like or as

Hyperbole

• giving a nonhuman thing human charactoristics

• a comparison of two or more things without using like or as

• a comparison of two or more things using like or as

• a sound word

• an exaggeration