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.
Poems consist of words that are divided into_________.
What is lines?
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 group of lines in 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 spring flowers."
Imagery
The pattern formed by the rhyming words at the end of lines in poetry.
What is rhyme scheme?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Raining cats and dogs
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.
Write a 4 line poem using Ms. Young's favorite color.
Lavender
Language that appeals to the five senses.
Imagery
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 mood?
The emotions that a text evokes from the reader