figurative language examples
Organization
types of poetry
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Definition
100

Her eyes are like diamonds.

What is a simile?

100

 Words that have the same ending sound.

What is rhyming.

100

5-7-5 syllable pattern from Japan

What is a haiku?

100

The short dictionary in the back of a textbook

What is a glossary?

100

 Words like Bam and Pow.

What is Onomatopoeia?

200

Mrs. Livengood likes lobster and linguini!

What is alliteration?

200

A poem is broken into these.

What is a stanza?

200

Poem about yourself

What is I am a poem?

200

An ending of a word that changes the meaning 

What are suffixes?

200

Two things being compared using "like" or "as". 

What is a simile?

300

I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.

What is an idiom or a hyperbole?

300

Language that meant to mean more than, or something other than, its literal meaning. 

What is Figurative Language?

300

Any poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a world 

What is acrostic? 

300

words that are opposite of each other

What are antonyms?

300

Unlike words that are being compared.

What is a metaphor?

400

My dog yelled at me when I would not feed him.

What is personification?

400

The description that can be visualized. 

What is the imagery?

400

A poem that is line sets or two that rhyme at the end

What is a couplet?

400

When you quote from a text.

What is citing from the text?

400
Exaggerations of the truth.

What is hyperbole?

500

Her voice could be heard for a thousand miles.

What is a hyperbole?

500

The pattern in which rhyme occurs throughout a stanza or an entire poem. 

What is the rhyme scheme?

500

A poem copied from another poet 

What is an inspired poem?

500

The problem and answer in a story.

What are conflict and resolution?

500

A word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said.

What is an idiom? 

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