Figurative Langauge
Poem Types
Name that Poem
Name that Figurative Language
Important Terms
100
Uses "like" and "as" to compare two unlike things.
Simile
100
5-7-5 syllables
Haiku
100
An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.
Haiku
100
It takes FOREVER to get to school in the morning.
Hyperbole
100
The feeling I get when I read a poem.
Mood
200
Compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as".
Metaphor
200
Tells a story in a song like tune.
Ballad
200
summer,wistful waves September impressions me a yellowish ,blue
Tercet
200
Give an example of a simile.
My mom is like an angel.
200
What the author wants you to feel when he writes the poem.
Tone
300
What is Onomatopoeia?
Words that make their own sounds.
300
Two lined poem.
Couplet
300
When Sally irons her clothes, they come out looking awful. She did not read the label and her iron was meant to waffle.
Couplet
300
The candle danced in the moonlight.
Personification
300
Stanza
A paragraph in a poem. It helps separate thoughts.
400
An over exaggeration.
Hyperbole
400
Does not rhyme and has no rhythmic meter.
Free Verse
400
There once was a Martian named Zed With antennae all over his head. He sent out a lot Of di-di-dash-dot But nobody knows what he said.
Limerick
400
I have a frog in my throat.
Idiom
400
(ABAB) (AABB) (ABCB) These are all examples of what?
Rhyme Scheme
500
Giving Human Characteristics to non-human things.
Personification
500
Has four lines and rhymes.
Quatrain
500
Bacon oh bacon you greasy little devil, You have my full attention when i hear that frying pan sizzle. Your aroma so intoxicating, Your taste is just pure bliss, Each bite just keeps getting better my head spins like the Exorcist. You're the duct tape of the food industry cause you add that extra flava, I don't care if i'm going broke i'm hungry , for you i'll pay that extra dolla. My belly is content I have a smile across my face, Bacon oh bacon when I eat you you take me to my happy place.
Free Verse
500
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
Alliteration
500
A unifying idea that is recurrent element in a literacy or artistic work.
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