Fig Language Devices
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as. Hint: it says one thing IS another, usually.
What is a metaphor?
"The falling snowflakes are dancers" is this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
Poetry structure that has no rules.
What is free verse?
Sunshine warming my feet,
Underwater fun with friends,
Making homemade ice cream,
Many long nights catching fireflies.
Early morning walks to the creek,
Reveling in the freedom of lazy days.
What is an acrostic poem?
Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
What is personification?
A vast exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
"It's raining cats and dogs" is this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
To create this poetry, you write the letters of a word down the side of the page and then begin the lines of your poem with those letters.
What is acrostic?
An old silent pond..
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
What is a haiku?
When one thing is meant to represent something else in literature. Hint: It helps to create a deeper meaning and adds emotion to the story or poem.
What is symbolism/a symbol?
The author's attitude towards a subject.
"The sunlight danced" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
This type of poem is four lines long, and has a rhyme scheme where the first and third lines rhyme, and the second and fourth lines rhyme.
What is a quatrain?
Well, it's one for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready
Now, go cat, go
What is a quatrain?
By Elvis Presley
Language used to describe something that appeals to our five senses (smell, sight, touch, hearing..)
A cultural phrase that when interpreted literally does not make sense.
What is an idiom?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow!" uses this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
What is a haiku?
Castle
Strong, beautiful
Imposing, protecting, watching
Symbolizes wealth and power
Fortress
What is cinquain?
Comparing two unlike things throughout a series of lines, and possibly a whole paragraph or poem.
What is extended metaphor?
A word that sounds like what it means.
What is an onomatopoeia?
The orange/fire in the boys hands at the end of the poem "Oranges" was and example of this figurative language device.
What is symbolism?
In this type of poem, there are five lines, and the first line and fifth line only contain one word.
What is a cinquain?
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.
What is free verse?
"Risk" by Anais Nin