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: The lovely lilies looked as lively as ever.
Alliteration.
What is a line in poetry?
A single horizontal section of poetry.
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
What is a section of a poem called?
Stanza
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
I heard a huge roar and turned around and saw a bear.
Onomatopoeia
What is a theme?
A lesson or message the author gives the reader.
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. BZZZ!
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: It is a million degrees outside!
Hyperbole.
How many lines does the following poem have?
Oh, how I wish
I could be a fish.
So many nights,
So many bites,
How I wish
to be a fist.
6
Language that appeals to the five senses.
Imagery
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What hyperbole?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
What makes a simile different from a metaphor?
Using "like" or "as" to compare things