Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: And never again did the blackbirds weep, for the flowers brought them joy.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
Name 5 types of figurative language.
Idiom, Simile, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Metaphor Personification, Onomatopoeia, Imagery
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: He seems to see a set of simple Simon's sitting on the sofa.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: "O Rose, thou art sick"
Personification
A section of a poem
Stanza
A type of figurative language that gives human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: The snow was a blanket laying silently across the meadow.
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language: She is the apple of my eye.
What is an idiom?
This is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning
Connotation
A literary device used in writing that uses vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea in their head.
What is imagery?
Name the figurative language: To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!’
What is repetition?
Identify the figurative language: The clink clank of the city noise kept Finela awake at night.
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the definition of Idiom?
A phrase which has a different meaning than the literal meaning.
The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds.
onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language: As he stared at the smoldering house, small embers glowed orange in the light breeze. Ash drifted gently to the ground as tears dripped steadily down his pale cheeks.
What is imagery?
Identify the figurative language: "I would not like them in a bus. I would not like them in a train. I would not like them here or there."
What is repetition?
What is tone?
The author's feelings towards the poem.
How the poem feels.