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Examples
Poetry Vocabulary
100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.

What is personification?

100

The suitcase weighed a ton!

what is Hyperbole

100

Bear and Bare

what is Homophones

100

How do you make a tisse dance, you put a little boogie in it

what is a pun

200

The door groans when we open it.

what is Personification

200

A writer presents a situation or thing as if it is less important or serious than it is in reality.

what is understatment

200

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

what is Personification 

200

Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.

what is Metaphor.

200

The author uses an understatement to make a serious situation funny.

what is comitic irony

300

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

300

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.

what is Simile

300

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

What is a simile?

300

Name the figurative language: 

  • If I can’t buy that perfect prom dress, I’ll die!

what is Hyperbole

300

I just got in to a car crash lucky me.

 what is Verbal Irony

400

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

400

Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.

What is an idiom?

400

“This math formula is my Donkey.”

what is Allusion

400

Name the figurative language: It is a million degrees outside!

what is Hyperbole.

400

a police station being robbed

what is Situational Irony

500

When a writer uses a softer/nicer word/phrase in the place of something that could be considered offensive or unpleasant.

what is Euphemism

500

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

What is a metaphor?

500

Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."

What hyperbole?

500

Contradictory or unexpected statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true

what is an idom


500

when shrech is taking to phiona and doesn't know shes an oger

what is Dramatic Irony