Poetry and Trope

Cards (18)

  • The purest form of writing, one of the oldest form of art and a recreation of the human imagination.
    Poetry
  • A catch-all term from figures of speech.
    Trope
  • A type of figure of speech where it describes the comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common.
    Metaphor
  • A type of figure of speech where the comparison between two dissimilar things is direct and uses "like" and "as."
    Simile
  • A type of figure of speech where an inanimate object is given human qualities or abilities.
    Personification
  • A type of figure of speech where words or phrases are parallel in order and the statement expresses opposite or contrasting emanings.
    Antithesis
  • What kind of figure of speech is "She is an angel."?
    Metaphor
  • What kind of figure of speech is "Life is a journey."?
    Metaphor
  • What kind of figure of speech is "Love is a battlefield."?
    Metaphor
  • What kind of figure of speech is "He's as busy as a bee""?
    Simile
  • What kind of figure of speech is "He runs fast as the lightening"?
    Simile
  • What kind of figure of speech is "The teacher is wise like an owl"?
    Simile
  • What kind of figure of speech is "The trees danced in the wind"?
    Personification
  • What kind of figure of speech is "The storm roared its fury"?
    Personification
  • What kind of figure of speech is "The alarm clock screamed at her to wake up"?
    Personification
  • What kind of figure of speech is "Heaven is above, and hell is below"?
    Antithesis
  • What kind of figure of speech is "Speech is silver, but silence is golden"?
    Antithesis
  • What kind of figure of speech is "Love is an ideal thing, marriage is the real thing"?
    Antithesis