Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Identify the two words that make up a slant rhyme in the poem, "Those We Love the Best" by Ella Wilcox Wheeler.
One great truth in life I've found,
While journeying in the West --
The only folks we really wound,
Are those we love the best.
What is "found" and "wound"?
This word can be used to describe the act of copying a sound someone makes or a jesture.
What is mimic?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
What is the rhyme scheme of this excerpt of a poem?
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
What is ABAB?
The form of poetry made popular by William Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
This word is used to describe having multiple types of something.
What is variety?
These are three types of rhymes commonly found in poetry.
What is masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, and slant rhyme?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
This is often used as a tool by poets to create rhythm or emphasize and idea.
What is repetition?
A poem that tells a story that has the same name as a work of fiction that tells a story. It's usually being told by someone.
Hint: This is used by Cisneros in "A house on Mango Street."
What is a narrative?
Complete this statement:
The brain has the ___________ to hold a large amount of information.
What is capacity?
This type of rhyme consists of two words that sound similar, but do not rhyme perfectly.
What is slant rhyme?
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
What is repetition?
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
This means to be difficult to find, or remember.
What is elusive?
Identify where the personification is in Emely Dickinson's poem, "Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart":
Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
What figurative language is being used in the following sentence:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is Alliteration?
What is the rhyme scheme?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
What adjective describing mood does this poem inspire?
(Hint: It is one of our vocabulary words, but you must use the adjective form of the word.)
The world, a tapestry of muted hues,
Where joy seems lost and hope begins to lose.
A lonely moon ascends, a silver tear,
Bathed in the gloom of a forgotten year.
What is melancholic?
Our vocabulary word that means a state of sadness.
What is Melancholy?
This is an ordered pattern of rhymes that gives a poem its structure.
What is a rhyme scheme?