Sound Devices
Annotating Key Symbols
Examples of Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Poetry
100

Cat and Rat

What is rhyme?

100

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What strategy is important information/main ideas

100

Yellow like the sun

What is a simile?

100

A comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

100

The author's title that writes poems

What is a poet?

200

BUZZ!

What is onomatopoeia?

200

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What is, I don’t understand; come back to this?

200

Heart = love

What is symbolism?

200

A literary device in which a person, place, thing o event that has meaning in itself also adds meaning, or stands for something else.

What is symbolism?

200

A group of words together on one straight "______"

What is a line?

300

Wendy walked while talking.

What is alliteration?

300

o

What is circle unfamiliar terms/ideas?

300

The rain ran down the side of the house

What is personification?

300

A figure of speech that gives human qualities to something that is nonhuman.

What is personification?

300

The appearance of the words on the page

What is the form?

400

Splat!

What is onomatopoeia?

400

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What is I’m surprised?

400

“I read that book a thousand times!”

What is a hyperbole? 

400

An expression where the actual meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.

What is an idiom?

400

A group of lines arranged together

What is a stanza?

500

She said it again, and again, and again.

What is repetition?

500

(1)  (2)  (3) .....

What is label your supports?

500

His Pinocchio nose kept growing!

What is an allusion?

500

The use of extreme exaggeration

What is a hyperbole?

500

A type of literature that creates images, tells stories, explores feelings, and describes experiences in a specific form.

What is poetry?

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