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 singers’ joyous song echoed through the stage, into the halls, and around the city.
True or false:
A theme is a single word or an emotion.
False
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
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 barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world. It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope. And whenever the cat was given a fish head to eat, the barn would smell of fish. But mostly it smelled of hay, for there was always hay in the great loft up overhead. And there was always hay being pitched down to the cows and the horses and the sheep."
Imagery.
True or false:
The speaker and the poet are the same person.
False.
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: My feet are killing me.
Hyperbole
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: When was the last time you felt under the weather?
Idiom.
What is the author's attitude in the poem called?
Tone
the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity
consonance
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Tiffany's offensive remarks disturbed Jeffrey and the other staff-members.
Consonance
What is the definition of onomatopoeia?
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
clink, boom, pow, splash