Figurative Language
A comparison without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
In poetry, a stanza is similar to _________ which is always found in regular written text such as essays, articles, and books.
What is a paragraph?
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
What does a title tell us about a poem?
topic or at times the main idea?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
Idiom
The use of words to create a connection to any of the five senses
What is sensory language?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
onomatopoeia
A pattern of rhymes in lines in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
In poetry, what do poets call what looks like sentences that are different lengths?
What are lines?
Writing that makes meaning through sound, image, style, and rhythm.
What is poetry?
Language that contains figures of speech and departs from the literal meaning
What is figurative language?
The stress or loudness of voice thrown upon a single syllable
What is the accent of a word?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia