Figurative Language
Simile or Metaphor
Figurative Language
Hyperbole or Personification
Poetry Elements
DANGER ZONE
100

What is a simile?

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

100

Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"

What is personification?

100

A line in a poem is called a _____.

verse

100

True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.

True

200

What is a metaphor?

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

200

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

Personification 

200

A group of verses in a poem is called _____.

a stanza

200

Give a metaphor with the word heart

example: Heart of gold

300

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah. 

Simile

300

What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."

Hyperbole

300

who writes the poems

poet

300

What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language. 


Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used. 

400

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

What is a simile?

400

Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.

Hyperbole.

400

When two words sound the same in a poem, it is called _____________


rhyme

400

Why do we use figurative language in our writing?

to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining

500

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

Metaphor

500

What type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things?

Personification

500

Poems can be similar to ____ because of their use of rhyme and figurative language.

a song

500

List 5 types of figurative language 

simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche