Figurative Language
A line in a poem
What is a verse?
Looking closely or in a searching manner
What is peering?
Compares two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
A phrase whose words contradict each other with opposite meanings.
What is a oxymoron?
By way of; by means of; through
What is via?
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true
What is a hyperbole?
What is an allusion?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
Words that have the same end sound
What is Rhyme?
crossing
What is intersecting?
A comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
language that appeals to one or more of the five senses
What is imagery?
The beat of a poems words or syllables
What is Rhythm?
Traveled through; moved across
What is traversed?
The reputation of the same initial consonant sound.
What is a alliteration?
Words that imitate sounds
What is a onomatopoeia?
Words or phrases that are meaningful, but not literally true
What is figurative language?
The distance around something; circumference
What is girth?
Means something different from the literal meaning of the words that make it up.
What is an Idiom?