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
"Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language:
The lovely lilies looked as lively as ever.
Alliteration.
What is a line in poetry?
A single horizontal section of poetry.
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
What is alliteration?
Identify the example:
The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language:
The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language:
The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
What is a section of a poem called?
Stanza
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?
Name the figurative language:
The ghost said "Boo!"
Onomatopoeia
What is the rhyme scheme of a poem?
The pattern of rhyme that occurs in a poem, usually written in letter form like AABBC or ABABA.
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
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?
Name the figurative language:
It is a million degrees outside!
Hyperbole.
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
A phrase which bears no literal meaning to the situation it is describing but it implies the facts or story behind it.
What is an idiom?
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?
Name the figurative language:
The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
What is the tone of a poem?
The author's feelings towards the poem. How the poem feels.