FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - MOREAU

DEFINITION

100

VERSE WITHOUT RHYMES OR PATTERNS

WHAT IS FREE VERSE?

200

LANGUAGE THAT APPEALS TO THE SENSES OF HEARING, TOUCH, TASTE, AND/OR SMELL IS CALLED

WHAT IS IMAGERY?

300

A DIRECT COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO UNLIKE THINGS

WHAT IS A METAPHOR?

400

A REFERENCE TO A STATEMENT, A PERSON, A PLACE, OR AN EVENT FROM LITERATURE, ART, HISTORY, RELIGION, MYTHOLOGY, POLITICS, SPORTS, OR SCIENCE.

WHAT IS ALLUSION?

500

POETRY IS MEANT TO BE

WHAT IS READ ALOUD OR HEARD?

FIGURE IT OUT

100

WHAMO

WHAT IS ONOMATOPOEIA?

200

LOVE IS LEARNING TO LET GO.

WHAT IS ALLITERATION?

300

I WALKED BACK TO THE SHACK TO PICK UP MY PACK.

WHAT IS ASSONANCE?

400

BLACK BOYS ARE POLLUTION

WHAT IS A METAPHOR?

500

THE CLOUDS SHED ANGRY TEARS DURING THE STORM.

WHAT IS PERSONIFICATION?

IDENTIFY

100

SHE AT A GINORMOUS PIECE OF CAKE

WHAT IS HYPERBOLE?

200

POETS USE ME TO LIGHTEN UP THE LEARNING

WHAT IS ALLITERATION OR ASSONANCE OR END RHYME?

300

"LET THE RAIN KISS YOU

LET THE RAIN BEAT UPON YOUR HEAD

LET THE RAIN SING YOU A LULLABY  . . ."

WHAT IS PERSONIFICATION?

400

HER EYES WERE LIKE TWO BROWN CIRCLES WITH BIG BLACK DOTS IN TH CENTER.

WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A TERRIBLE SIMILE?

500

IDENTIFY THE METAPHOR IN THIS PASSAGE FROM THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE BY STEPHEN CRANE

"THE GREATER PART OF THE UNTESTED MEN APPEARED QUIET AND ABSORBED. THEY WERE GOING TO LOOK AT THE WAR, THE RED ANIMAL - THE BLOOD SWOLLEN GOD."

WHAT IS A ". . .THE RED ANIMAL - THE BLOOD SWOLLEN GOD"?

ABSTRACT

100

EYES ARE NOT EYES BUT

WINDOWS TO THE SOUL

200

CHURCHES ARE BUILDINGS, BUT REPRESENT

FAITH, HOLINESS

300

DICTATORS ARE MEN OR WOMEN, BUT CAN ALSO BE OR REPRESENT

OPPRESSORS, POWER

400

A PENCIL IS WOOD AND GRAPHITE, BUT

WHAT IS A MEANS TO EXPRESSION?

500

SOMETHING TANGIBLE IS CONCRETE AND CAN BE SEEN, TOUCHED, HEARD, SMELLED OR TASTED. SOMETHING INTANGIBLE

WHAT IS GOES BEYOND THE SENSES?

POETRY IS . . .

100

PARAGRAPHS VS

WHAT ARE STANZAS

200

LINES VS

WHAT IS A SENTENCE

300

EVERYDAY WRITING

WHAT IS PROSE?

400

SOMETHING POETS DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT PROSE WRITERS MUST WORRY ABOUT

WHAT ARE ENGLISH CONVENTIONS (GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, SPELLING)

500

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED TO ELEVATE WRITING IN 

WHAT IS PROSE AND POETRY