Figurative Language
Simile or Metaphor
Simile or Metaphor
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
A line in a poem is called a _____.
verse
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
A group of verses in a poem is called _____.
a stanza
Give a metaphor with the word heart
example: Heart of gold
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
who writes the poems
poet
What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language.
Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used.
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
When two words sound the same in a poem, it is called _____________
rhyme
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
Metaphor
What type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things?
Personification
Poems can be similar to ____ because of their use of rhyme and figurative language.
a song
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche