Figurative Language
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: " You're barking up the wrong tree, buddy!"
idiom
language that uses touch, taste, sound, smell and sight to "paint" a picture for the reader
imagery.
"Poem paragraphs" are also known as
Stanzas
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words e.g. I am going to call it a day
idiom
Name the figurative language: I could sleep for a week, I am so tired.
hyperbole
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
True or False:Figurative language is literal.
False
A type of poetry that has free flowing lines and no specific rhyming structure
Free Form or Free Verse
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language:They were as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche
traditional Japanese form of poetry that has themes surrounding nature- 3 lines
Haiku
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
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
14 line poem composed of quatains followed by couplets, exploring themes of love and nature
sonnet
A type of figurative language identified by extreme exaggeration to prove a point.
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: out of the blue
What an idiom?
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.
Narrative poems that tell a story, often set to music
Ballad