Figurative Language
Indirectly comparing two seemingly unlike things, usually using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
How the author feels and writes about the subject matter.
What is tone?
What the letters in CER stand for.
What is Claim, Evidence, Reasoning?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
What is rhyme scheme?
Type of poetry that has only three lines, and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?
Giving a non-human object human qualities or characteristics.
What is personification?
How a text makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
The information you need to include in between your claim and evidence.
What is context?
The natural beats or segments of a word when spoken out loud.
What are syllables?
Notes made in the margins of a text that help us process its meaning.
What are annotations?
Label this piece of figurative language:
Beating rugs against the house,
we watch dust, lit like stars, spreading
across the yard.
What is a simile?
Form of figurative language used to describe things in detail, typically used to build tone.
What is imagery?
Label the following sentence as Claim, Context, Evidence, or Reasoning:
In the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, the author uses repetition to reinforce the determined tone.
What is claim?
Label the following stanza's rhyme scheme:
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
What is AABB?
Language that is not meant to be taken literally. A category for other things.
What is figurative language?
Label the following figurative language:
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
What is a metaphor?
The phrase that most contributes to the tone of longing in this passage:
My mother irons, singing, lost in reverie.
I mark the pages of a mail-order catalog,
listen for passing cars.
What is "lost in reverie"?
Identify what is missing from the following evidence:
In the text it states “But still, like dust, I’ll rise”.
What is a citation?
Label the following stanza's rhyme scheme:
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
What is ABABCB?
A group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation.
What is a stanza?
Label the following figurative language:
I'd catch a grenade for ya
Throw my hand on a blade for ya
I'd jump in front of a train for ya
You know I'd do anything for ya
What is hyperbole?
Name the tone of the following passage (three possible answers):
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be merry,
In such a jocund company:
Label the following sentence as Claim, Context, Evidence, or Reasoning:
This repetition shows the reader how she is unwilling to back down or change her behavior for other people.
What is reasoning?
A type of figurative language that often contributes to the rhythm of a poem through similar letter sounds.
What is alliteration?
A phrase that is not meant literally and its meaning is usually not related to the actual words present. Typically cultural in its usage.
What is an idiom?