Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: And never again did the blackbirds weep, for the flowers brought them joy.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "I have a million assignments due this week."
What is hyperbole?
True or false:
A haiku has three lines of seven, five, and seven syllables
False
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: He seems to see a set of simple Simon's sitting on the sofa.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: "O Rose, thou art sick"
Personification
A section of a poem
Stanza
A type of figurative language that gives human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: The snow was a blanket laying silently across the meadow.
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language: She is the apple of my eye.
What is an idiom?
The type of meter that Shakespeare used in his writing
Iambic Pentameter
A literary device used in writing that uses vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea in their head.
What is imagery?
Identify the figurative language: The clink clank of the city noise kept Finela awake at night.
What is onmatopoeia?
Identify the figurative language: The clink clank of the city noise kept Finela awake at night.
What is onomatopoeia?
The type of poetry represented here:
It was the schooner Hesperus
that sailed the wintry sea
And the skipper had taken his little daughter
to bear him company
Quatrain
The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds.
onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language: As he stared at the smoldering house, small embers glowed orange in the light breeze. Ash drifted gently to the ground as tears dripped steadily down his pale cheeks.
What is imagery?
Identify the figurative language: "I would not like them in a bus. I would not like them in a train. I would not like them here or there."
What is repetition?
The type of poetry shown here:
There was an Old Man with a flute,
A serpent ran into his boot;
But he played day and night,
Till the serpent took flight,
And avoided that man with a flute.
Limerick