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Examples
Poetry Vocabulary
100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.

What is personification?

100

The suitcase weighed a ton!

what is Hyperbole

100

Bear and Bare

what is Homophones

100

How do you make a tisse dance, you put a little boogie in it

what is a pun

200

The door groans when we open it.

what is Personification

200

A writer presents a situation or thing as if it is less important or serious than it is in reality.

what is understatment

200

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

what is Personification 

200

Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.

what is Metaphor.

200

The author uses an understatement to make a serious situation funny.

what is comitic irony

300

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

300

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.

what is Simile

300

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

What is a simile?

300

Name the figurative language: 

  • If I can’t buy that perfect prom dress, I’ll die!

what is Hyperbole

300

I just got in to a car crash lucky me.

 what is Verbal Irony

400

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

400

Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.

What is an idiom?

400

“This math formula is my Donkey.”

what is Allusion

400

Name the figurative language: It is a million degrees outside!

what is Hyperbole.

400

a police station being robbed

what is Situational Irony

500

When a writer uses a softer/nicer word/phrase in the place of something that could be considered offensive or unpleasant.

what is Euphemism

500

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

What is a metaphor?

500

Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."

What hyperbole?

500

Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.

what is Simile

500

when shrech is taking to phiona and doesn't know shes an oger

what is Dramatic Irony

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