Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Identifying Figurative Language
Identifying Sound Devices
Vocabulary!
100
A comparison that uses like or as.
Simile
100
Repeating a word or phrase for meaning or rhythmic effect.
Repetition
100
In an excerpt of the poem "Dreams" by Langston Hughes the following line reads "Life is a broken-winged bird" (line 3). What type of figurative language is this an example of?
Metaphor
100
In an excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe the following line reads "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" (line 1). What are two sound devices that are present in this line?
Alliteration and Internal Rhyme
100
Is the use or creation of a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Onomatopoeia
200
A comparison that does not use like or as.
Metaphor
200
The repeating of similar consonant sounds within words of poems near each other.
Consonance
200
In an excerpt from "Harlem" by Langston Hughes, the following line reads "Or does it explode?" (line 11). What figurative language device is included in the lines above?
Hyperbole
200
Label the rhyme scheme in this poem
A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D
E
E
F
F
G
G
200
When the lines at the end of the poetic line do not phonetically align with one another.
Imperfect Rhyme
300
Giving an object human-like characteristics.
Personification
300
Repetition of a vowel sound in nearby words or phrases.
Assonance
300
What following figurative language device is being used in this excerpt of "Love and Friendship", "That when December blights thy brow he still may leave thy garland green" (lines 11-12).
Personification
300
In the excerpt from "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost the following line reads, "I hold with those who favor fire" (line 4). What two sound devices are present in the line above?
Assonance and Alliteration
300
A humorous poem five lines long in which the first, second, and fifth lines have one rhyme and the third and fourth another.
Limerick
400
The idea that things represent other things.
Symbolism
400
Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words next to or near each other..
Alliteration
400
What does the "dream deferred" symbolize?
Equality
400
In the excerpt of "Thumbprint" by Eve Merriam the following line reads, "whorls, whirls, wheels" (line 2). Is an example of what two sound devices?
Alliteration and Consonance
400
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Rhyme Scheme
500
An exaggeration not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
500
A regular repeated pattern of sound-stressed and unstressed syllables; gives poem a sing-song quality.
Rhythm
500
In the song "Firework" by Katy Perry the following lyric reads, "Like a lightening bolt, your heart will blow" (line 30). What two figurative language devices are being used in this line?
Simile and Hyperbole
500
What is the importance of repetition in this poem in the lines "I love you" (lines 4 & 13). and "Come, let us roam the night together singing" (lines 1 & 14).
It's emphasizing the authors love for his partner.
500
A poem that doesn't have rhyme or rhythm.
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