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This type of figurative language is an exaggeration meant to create humor or emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
100
This is the name for an individual sentence of a poem.
What is line
100
This is the pattern of beats and/or syllables in a poem
What is rhythm
100
This is a phrase that gives advice about human behavior or about how humans should act
What is proverb
100
My french fries are hotter than the sun is an example of which type of figurative language
What is hyperbole
200
This type of figurative language is a phrase or saying that usually does not mean exactly what it says.
What is idiom?
200
This is the name for a paragraph of a poem.
What is stanza
200
This is a type of figurative language in which human characteristics are given to animals, plants, objects, or nature
What is personification
200
PLOP, PLIP, PLOP, PLIP is an example of this type of figurative language
What is onomatopoeia
200
Sarah is feeling under the weather today is an example of which type of figurative language
What is idiom
300
This type of figurative language uses words to create imitations of sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
This is the name for the writer of a poem
What is poet?
300
This is a type of figurative language where words have the same beginning sound
What is alliteration
300
Coleman is as honest as Abraham Lincoln is an example of this type of figurative language
What is simile
300
The tree's hundreds of tiny arms stretched high into the sky is an example of which type of figurative language
What is personification
400
This type of figurative language uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two different things.
What is simile?
400
This is a special language poets use to create pictures in the minds of readers
What is figurative language?
400
This is the name for repeating words or phrases in a poem
What is refrain
400
Wyatt's stomach is a bottomless pit is an example of what type of figurative language
What is metaphor
400
This type of poetry has to be performed by more than one person at the same time and can sometimes be recited with music.
What is choral poetry
500
This type of figurative language compares two different things without using the words "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
500
This is when two words have the same ending sound
What is rhyme
500
This is a phrase that expresses some kind of truth about how people act or behave
What is adage
500
Seven slimy snakes swam South is an example of which type of figurative language
What is alliteration
500
This type of poem has 3 lines and a syllable pattern of 5, 7, 5.
What is Haiku
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