Definitions
What is "onomatopoeia"?
Words that represent a sound.
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
What senses does the following sentence appeal to?
The big green bullfrog bleated happily as he splashed in the scummy pond.
Sight and Sound
What is a line in poetry?
A single horizontal section of poetry.
Write an example of onomatopoeia.
Define "simile".
Comparing two things using like or as.
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
What senses does the following sentence appeal to?
My grandmother's savory potato stew scalded the inside of my mouth as I ate it.
Touch and taste
What is a section of a poem called?
Stanza
Write an example of a simile.
Define "personification".
Giving human qualities to something that is not human.
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?
What senses does the following sentence appeal to?
Clear icy spears crackled and pinged against the family room window like a baseball striking a bat.
Sound and sight
The pattern of rhyme that occurs in a poem, usually written in letter form like AABBC or ABABA.
Write an example of hyperbole.
Define "Alliteration".
The repetition of the same SOUND at the BEGINNING of words in a line of poetry or figurative language.
Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head. BZZZ!
What is onomatopoeia?
What senses does the following sentence appeal to?
The heavy quilt felt like an x-ray vest draped across our legs.
Touch
How many lines does the following poem have?
Oh, how I wish
I could be a fish.
So many nights,
So many bites,
How I wish
to be a fist.
6
Write an example of personification.
Define "sensory language".
Language that appeals to your five sense: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What hyperbole?
The warm beach air smelled of seaweed and salt as I stood on our balcony in my blue sundress.
Touch, smell, sight
What is mood?
The way the poem or story is mean to make the reader feel.
Write an example of a metaphor.