Figurative Language
What is the figurative language being used in the following line: "Love is a ripe plum."
What is a metaphor?
Use a metaphor to describe the sun.
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How many stanzas are there in a limerick?
What is 1?
Which figurative language is being used in the following lines?
"The sky is low, the clouds are mean"
What is personification?
What type of poem tells a story (may have characters, setting and plot)?
What is narrative poetry?
What is the figurative language being used?
"My love is like a red, red rose."
What is a simile and/or repetition?
Describe trash using personification.
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What does a title tell us about a poem?
What is the main idea?
Which type of figurative language is being used here?
"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams / Of the beautiful Annabel Lee..."
What is internal rhyme?
What poetic device is being used?
"Blue waves whitened on a cliff"
"Soaring fire that sways and sings"
What is imagery?
What is the figurative language being used?
"The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky."
What is personification?
Describe your best friend using a simile.
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Does all poetry have to rhyme?
What is no -- there is free verse poetry!
What type of figurative language is being used below?
"Just as the moon rose over the bay...The Somerset, British man-of-war...lay a phantom ship, with each mast and spar...that was magnified by its own reflection in the tide."
What is imagery?
"Splish-Splash, whoosh, bam, chirp" are all examples of....
What is onomatopoeia?
What type of figurative language is being used?
"I'll love you for a thousand years."
What is hyberbole?
Discuss your favorite music artist using hyperbole.
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What is a stanza?
What is a unit within a larger poem, or "a paragraph" in a poem, so to speak?
What type of figurative language is being used below?
"What happens to a dream deferred?"
What is alliteration?
Which of the 5 senses does the following appeal to most?..."Tumbling through the ocean water after being overtaken by the monstrous wave, Mark unintentionally took a gulp of the briny, bitter mass, causing him to cough and gag."
What is taste?
What is the figurative language being used?
"Candy's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos."
What is alliteration?
Using alliteration complete the following line. Talking turtles...
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This is what two-lines which rhyme are called...
What is a couplet?
Which type of figurative language is being used?
"You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I'll rise."
What is a simile?
What form of poetry was used to write "Grandma Ling"?
What is free verse?