Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: I wish I could wave a magic wand and it would be done!
Allusion
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "Fish are so smart because they live in schools."
Pun
Makes up a stanza
line
The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
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.
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph
Stanza
The attitude or mood expressed in the poem, such as joyful, happy, sad
Tone
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 repetition of sounds at the end of words, often found in poetry
Rhyme
The repetition of the beginning words, example we cannot... we cannot... we cannot
Anaphora
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head. BUZZZ!
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
Lists the pattern of end rhyme in a poem
Rhyme scheme
Part to whole and whole to part
Synechdoche
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
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?
Name the two types of figurative language: The air was as cold as ice. Blowing its brisk breeze across the meadows.
Simile
Alliteration
The central idea of the poem
Theme
A reference to history, religion, mythology or pop culture
Allusion
When writers use words that appeal to some of the human senses ex. sight, touch, taste, smell and sound. It often paints vivid pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
The carrot swam in the pool of gravy.
Personification
That coffee was hot enough to melt an iceberg.
What type of Figurative Language: Seriously Funny
Oxymoron
Not the literal language, but language that needs to be interpreted by the reader
Figurative Language
Giving non-human traits to non-human things