Examples
Definition
When do we use figurative language?
True or False?
Definition
100
Boom, Pop, Pow, Crackle
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Expresses the writer's attitude to the reader.
What is mood?
100
When trying to convey taste through writing I use:
What is imagery?
100
"The boulder was as big as a bus." is an example of a simile.
True
100
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is simile?
200
The eery silence was shattered by her scream.
What is imagery?
200
The repetition of consonants in a phrase or line.
What is alliteration?
200
Poetry put to music.
What is song lyrics?
200
"The wind sang through the meadow." is an example of an idiom.
False. What is personification?
200
Comparing two nouns, a person, and a rainbow, but does not use "like" or "as".
What is metaphor?
300
The run down house appeared depressed.
What is personification?
300
An exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
300
A poem using nine different forms of figurative language to express an intense hatred for a specific subject.
What is "bad love"?
300
"There are millions of other things to do." is an example of alliteration.
False. What is hyperbole?
300
The words of the poem that appeal to the readers five senses.
What is imagery?
400
The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.
What is metaphor?
400
Repeated words or statements.
What is repetition?
400
A poem written, explaining an event that has both sweet and sour memories.
What is "Lemonade"?
400
"The assignment was a breeze." is an example of mood.
False. What is idiom?
400
Final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical.
What is rhyme?
500
He really went to town on that issue.
What is idiom?
500
The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
A way of saying something other than the plain meaning of the words.
What is figurative language?
500
"The music coursed through us, shaking our bodies as if it came from within us." is an example of onomatopoeia.
False. What is imagery?
500
A group of lines in a poem.
What is stanza?
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