Figurative Language
She is as quiet as a fox
What is a simile?
Sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
What are the five senses?
A poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme
What is a limerick?
Moonlight danced through the leaves and illuminated her hair.
What is personification?
When an author uses vivid and descriptive language to add depth to the text.
What is imagery?
A traditional Japanese poem with seventeen total syllables
What is a haiku?
My backpack weighs a ton
What is a hyperbole?
an idea or feeling associated with a word that isn’t it’s actual meaning
What is connotation?
A type of poetry created by omitting words from newspapers or other texts
What is blackout poetry?
Cats in cradles are cuter than callous cauliflowers.
What is alliteration?
“Fog hanging like old coats between the trees” is this type of imagery.
What is visual?
A book of limericks written by Edward Lear.
What is The Book of Nonsense?
You are my sunshine (my only sunshine)
What is a metaphor?
A poem we read by T.S. Eliot that evokes imagery.
What is Preludes?
The history of blackout poetry goes back this many years.
What is 250?