Figurative Language
What is a simile?
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
Laughter bubbled out of her like soda shaken too long.
Simile
The bacon sizzled and popped in the pan, filling the kitchen with the sounds of breakfast.
Onomatopoeia
What is rhyme scheme?
The pattern of rhymes in a poem.
True or false: a necessary criteria of a poem is that it rhymes.
False.
What element of figurative language gives a non-human thing human characteristics?
Personification
The hallway yawned open, stretching into endless silence.
Personification
She told her story with the calm detachment of Sherlock Holmes—facts over feelings.
Allusion
True or false: every poem has either an AABB, ABAB, or ABCB rhyme scheme.
False
What is another name for literary devices?
Figurative language
What is a hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration.
His excuses were paper-thin armor against the truth.
Metaphor
The environmentalist’s yacht was powered by five diesel engines.
Irony
What is an AABB rhyme scheme?
When pairs of lines rhyme
What is a stanza?
What is it called when many, most, or all of the words in a line start with the same letter?
Alliteration
Benny’s big blue backpack burst by the bus bench.
Alliteration
Identify the two (excluding imagery):
The pencil tap-tap-tapped like a nervous heartbeat on the desk.
Onomatopoeia and Simile
What kind of rhyme scheme is this:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
It is cold outside.
I think you agree too!
ABCB
What is an Ode?
A lyrical poem praising a (usually ordinary) individual/thing.
What is an onomatopoeia? Explain AND give an example.
A "sound" word.
Her glare could melt an ice cream truck at midnight in Alaska.
Hyperbole
Identify the three literary devices in this sentence:
As the thunder growled like a hungry beast, the sky wept bitter tears over the battlefield, painting the ground with sorrow.
Personification, simile, and imagery
What are the three most common rhyme schemes?
AABB, ABAB, ABCB
What is Ms. A’s favorite poem?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot