Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: This was our Declaration of Independence and if Mom didn’t let us go to that concert, she would be our King George III.
Allsuion.
True or false:
A central idea is a word or an emotion.
False
This type of figurative language is a when the word imitates the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: I have a million things to do.
What is hyperbole?
Identify the figurative language: "I had to walk a crossed the whole world."
What is hyperbole?
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
What was the central idea in "Dear Mama"?
Be grateful for what you are given.
You don't know what you have until it's gone.
Respect your parents.
Let people know you appreciate them.
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: awfully good, clearly confused
What is oxymoron?
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world. It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope. And whenever the cat was given a fish head to eat, the barn would smell of fish. But mostly it smelled of hay, for there was always hay in the great loft up overhead. And there was always hay being pitched down to the cows and the horses and the sheep."
Imagery.
True or false:
The speaker and the poet are the same person.
False.
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: When was the last time you felt under the weather?
Idiom.
How many times should you reread a poem?
At least three.
This type of figurative language uses two apparently contradictory terms together.
What is an oxymoron?
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
Oxymoron.
What is tone?
The authors feelings towards the poem.
How the poem feels.