Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The luminous stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.
Alliteration
True or false:
A central idea is one word or an emotion.
False
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The insidious slithering snake stalked the small squad of 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 soft wind blew through the trees with the sweet smell of fresh spring flowers."
Imagery
True or false:
The author of a poem is always the speaker of the poem.
False.
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the Pæan of the bells —
Of the bells: —
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
What is repetition?
Identify the figurative language:
If you stand on the corner
of Mabini Street and Legazpi Avenue,
wait for an orchid colored mini-bus
with seven oblong doors,
open the fourth door—
What is allusion?
Name the figurative language: The light danced on the surface of the water.
Personification
What is mood?
the emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader. Mood in literature embodies the overall feeling or atmosphere of the work.
Authors can generate a story’s mood through
Setting,
imagery,
word choice
a reference to an event, person, place, movement, or thing.
Ex. It was a David and Goliath matchup when Ohio State played Indiana University on the basketball court.
allusion
Name the figurative language: He was an immense hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
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?
Name the figurative language: The air was as frigid as ice.
Simile
What is tone?
The authors feelings or attitude toward the text. Pay attention to word choice when determining tone.