Figurative Language
Imagery is a deep description of the theme.
What is imagery?
The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.
What is imagery?
A stanza is a group of lines with an even length,and rhyme scene.
What’s a stanza?
onomatopoeia is a word used to describe a sound
What is onomatopoeia?
Crash,splash,bang
What is onomatopoeia?
A metaphor is when you take an object and compare it to something that doesn’t make sense.
What is a metaphor?
The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur.
What is a metaphor?
A rhyme scene is a group of lines with the last words rhyming to the next line.
What’s a rhyme scene?
when the same letter or sound appears with closely related words.
what is alliteration?
Busy as a bee.
What’s alliteration?
Personification is when you say something about an object that can’t physically happen.
What's personification?
My teddy bear hugged me.
What is personification?
A quatrain is about 4 lines that all rhyme.
What’s a quatrain?
Assonance is the repeated sound of a vowel
What is Assonance?
Spitless,issued,lips.
What is assonance?
A hyperbole is sometimes an exaggeration that isn’t true.
What’s a hyperbole?
I was dying of laughter.
What’s a hyperbole?
An end rhyme is when at the end of 2 lines the last words rhyme.
What is an end rhyme?
Anaphora is the repeating of a word at the beginning of the poem.
What’s anaphora?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
What is Anaphora?
An oxymoron is usually made up of 2 or more words that have an opposite meaning.
What’s an oxymoron?
The cookies were bittersweet.
What's an oxymoron?
Parallel structure is when there is using the same pattern of words that have the same level of importance
What is parallel structure?
consonance is the recurrence of similar sounds
What is consonance?
“The phantom flashed past, aflame, then, poof! faded out of sight
What is consonance?