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Figurative Language Definitions
Figurative Language Examples
Types of Texts
Types of Poems
Story
100
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What is onomatopoeia?
100
There once was a cat who ate a rat.
What is rhyme?
100
This is a text with a character, a conflict, a resolution, and a theme.
What is a story?
100
Light of the moon Moves west, flowers' shadows Creep eastward.
What is a haiku?
100
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
200
The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
What is a hyperbole?
200
As I was sitting in the sun, I slicked back my hair like one of the Greasers in The Outsiders. Hint: Not a simile (though it is, but that is not the device we are looking for)
What is an allusion?
200
A TV commercial trying to sell toothpaste is an example of this.
What is an advertisement?
200
There was a young lady of Lynn, Who was so uncommonly thin That when she essayed To drink lemonade She slipped through the straw and fell in.
What is a limerick?
200
How a text makes you feel.
What is mood?
300
A type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech which achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance
What is a metaphor?
300
I was rounding the last corner of the race, I felt like I was running as fast as a gazelle.
What is a simile?
300
When someone writes about their own life.
What is an autobiography?
300
During Wind and Rain BY THOMAS HARDY They sing their dearest songs— He, she, all of them—yea, Treble and tenor and bass, And one to play; With the candles mooning each face. . . . Ah, no; the years O! How the sick leaves reel down in throngs! They clear the creeping moss— Elders and juniors—aye, Making the pathways neat And the garden gay; And they build a shady seat. . . . Ah, no; the years, the years, See, the white storm-birds wing across. They are blithely breakfasting all— Men and maidens—yea, Under the summer tree, With a glimpse of the bay, While pet fowl come to the knee. . . . Ah, no; the years O! And the rotten rose is ript from the wall. They change to a high new house, He, she, all of them—aye, Clocks and carpets and chairs On the lawn all day, And brightest things that are theirs. . . . Ah, no; the years, the years; Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs.
What is a ballad?
300
Pony boy caught up in the Greasers vs. the Socs is this type of conflict.
What is character vs. society?
400
The simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to secure emphasis.
What is repetition?
400
I was walking my dog when the wind whistled in my ear.
What is personification?
400
Newspaper articles, blogs, and documentaries are an example of this.
What is non-fiction?
400
Wind blowing my face Making my cheeks rosy red It's biting my nose And chilling through all my bones It is pushing me along
What is a tanka?
400
This is the force that works against the main character.
What is an antagonist?
500
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
What is imagery?
500
A Canadian flag was sewn into the traveller's backpack, showing where he was from.
What is a symbol?
500
A form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning.
What is poetry?
500
In Flight Wake up to a bright sapphire morning Cloudless skies This can only mean one thing It’s a go! At the launch site Teeth chit-chattering And not just from the c-cold What if a bird confuses my head for a perch? Will my glasses be fogged up by the clouds? If I fall out of the basket And land in a field of cows Up we go! Far below Idyllic fields of patchwork green Glittering lakes - a treasure trove beneath the surface Click! I can’t believe I’m so high Feeling like a queen I stretch my arms out to the sides Now I’m a bird So high I close my eyes and take flight I feel the wind in my wings Up with the clouds My hair, now feathers, sweeps behind me I am as elegant as a swan Soaring higher than the Earth Oh I’m not a bird I’m not as elegant as a swan I’m about as elegant as a rhino on roller skates I’m just a schoolgirl On a balloon flight And we just crash-landed In a field With cows.
What is free verse?
500
The message the author is trying to say.
What is theme?