figurative language examples
Her eyes are like diamonds.
What is a simile?
Words that have the same ending sound.
What is rhyming.
5-7-5 syllable pattern from Japan
What is a haiku?
The short dictionary in the back of a textbook
What is a glossary?
Words like Bam and Pow.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Mrs. Livengood likes lobster and linguini!
What is alliteration?
A poem is broken into these.
What is a stanza?
Poem about yourself
What is I am a poem?
An ending of a word that changes the meaning
What are suffixes?
Two things being compared using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.
What is an idiom or a hyperbole?
Language that meant to mean more than, or something other than, its literal meaning.
What is Figurative Language?
Any poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a world
What is acrostic?
words that are opposite of each other
What are antonyms?
Unlike words that are being compared.
What is a metaphor?
My dog yelled at me when I would not feed him.
What is personification?
The description that can be visualized.
What is the imagery?
A poem that is line sets or two that rhyme at the end
What is a couplet?
When you quote from a text.
What is citing from the text?
What is hyperbole?
Her voice could be heard for a thousand miles.
What is a hyperbole?
The pattern in which rhyme occurs throughout a stanza or an entire poem.
What is the rhyme scheme?
A poem copied from another poet
What is an inspired poem?
The problem and answer in a story.
What are conflict and resolution?
A word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said.
What is an idiom?