Figurative Language: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, Alliteration, Hyperbole, Irony, Imagery, Pers, Exams of Poetry

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Figurative Language

Onomatopoeia

Definition: words that sound like the object or action they refer to.

Examples:

Clap, clap!

Alliteration

Definition: repeating the same beginning sound in two or more words.

Example: The rain made a racket on the roof.

Hyperbole

Definition: an obvious exaggeration

Example: She ate a mountain of food.

Repetition

Definition: the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.

Example: The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;-

This it is, and nothing more."

Irony

Definition: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

Example: The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”.

Personification

Definition: when you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn't human or, in some cases, to something that isn't even alive

Example: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

Enjambment Definition: a thought or sense, phrase or clause in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break but moves over to the next line

Example: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.