Figurative Language #1
When an author references something external to his or her work in a passing manner.
What is allusion?
White clouds were gently swirled across the pale blue sky
What is imagery?
Ms. Hayden heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
What is personification?
Who wrote the poem mother to son?
What is Langston Hughes?
A chicken farmer’s favorite car is a coupe.
What is pun?
I'm afraid of speed bumps, but I'm slowly getting over it.
What is pun?
My best friend’s name is Jack.
He really likes to go in his pool.
His favorite food is pizza.
I think he’s really cool.
What is the rhyme scheme?
What is A<B<C<B?
My grades told me to go to sleep.
What is hyperbole?
You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.
What is a candle?
A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
What is alliteration?
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words
What is alliteration?
Coach bell looks better than Chris Brown, Lil baby, You, and Your Pops
What is Metaphor?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What is onomatopoeia?
What’s full of holes but still holds water?
What is a sponge?
Is an image, object, or idea is used to represent something other than its literal meaning.
What is a symbol or symbolism?
What is the rhyme scheme?
I'd rather take baths
with a man-eating shark,
or wrestle a lion
alone in the dark,
eat spinach and liver
What is A<B<C<B<D
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.What is the figurative language?
What is repetition?
a joke misusing the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
What is watermelon?