Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem
What is does the word convey mean as used in the following question:
What ideas are conveyed through the use of figurative language in lines 7-9?
reveal, show
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Language that helps the reader see, hear, feel, taste, or smell something.
Imagery
The most important point a text is trying to make.
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
How the poem is organized (lines, stanzas, form) is called the poem's ________________?
structure
symbolism
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The Book walked away on the Yellow Brick Road.
Personafication
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Poetry that does not follow a regular rhyme or rhythm pattern.
Free Verse
What does the word tone mean?
The author's attitude toward the subject.
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Sally sold seashells
alliteration
Meter
What is an extended metaphor?
A literary device that compares two unlike things and spans multiple sentences or paragraphs.