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Figurative Language 2
Figurative Language
Poems
Rhymes
100
A poem that follows a specific set of rules.
What is a formatted poem?
100
A word that sounds like what it means.
What is an onomatopoeia?
100
Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's 5 senses.
What is imagery?
100
The traditional purpose of this poem was to pay reverence to nature.
What is a haiku?
100
A rhyme that occurs at the end of the line.
What is end rhyme?
200
The pattern of rhyme in a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. "Shelves of shared laughter"
What is alliteration?
200
Comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
A 5 line poem with a syllable count of 2-4-6-8-2, and the words in each line have a specific purpose.
What is a cinquain?
200
A rhyme that occurs within the line.
What is internal rhyme?
300
Orange juice concentrate.
What is poetry?
300
The repetition of vowel sounds within a poem.
What is assonance?
300
"Fluffy cotton balls floating in the sky" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
300
A 5 line poem that rhymes AABBA, with lines that follow a long-long-short-short-long pattern.
What is a limerick?
300
ABAB CDCD rhyme in a poem.
What is an Alternate rhyme?
400
Poets are very careful and specific about this.
What is word choice.
400
A word or phrase that has been overused.
What is a cliche?
400
"The mask that grins and lies" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400
A type of poetry that doesn't rhyme, but has a rhythm created by syllable count and meter.
What is blank verse?
400
Rhyme with AA BB CC pattern.
What is a couplet?
500
When choosing their words, poets must think about the literal definition of the word, how the word sounds, and the word's _________.
What is connotation.
500
3 examples of figurative language in the following lyrics: I've got the scars from tomorrow and I wish you could see/ That you're the antidote to everything except for me/ A constellation of tears on your lashes/ Burn everything you love/ Then burn the ashes.
What is personification, metaphor, and imagery?
500
Name the 3 types of figurative language in the following example: "I ask them to take a poem/ and hold it up to the light/ like a color slide/ or press an ear against its hive."
What is a simile, a metaphor, and imagery?
500
Type of poem where line placement is important and is marinated in figurative language.
What is Free Verse?
500
Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the SOUL,/ And sings the tune without the words,/ And never stops at ALL./
What is slant rhyme?
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