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Sensory Language
Figurative Language
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100

Language that evokes or stirs up the reader's senses: smell, touch, taste, sight, sound.

What is sensory language/imagery?

100
Language that goes beyond the normal or literal meaning of the word; it is used to heighten the meaning of the word(s) used in order to create a dynamic effect
What is figurative language?
100
A grouping of verses or lines
What is a stanza?
100
A word that imitates the sound associated with the object or action it refers to
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A type of figurative language in which two unlikely objects are compared or contrasted
What is a metaphor?
200

Personification, figurative language, sensory language or allusion best describes the phrase: "some crisp cardboard toast"

What is sensory language/ imagery?

200
This poetic element best describes the phrase: "a pencil, waiting anxiously in the wings"
What is personification?
200

This poetic element describes this excerpt from Walt Whitman's "Oh Captain! My Captain!": "This ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done"

What is metaphor?

200
This poetic element best describes the phrase: "crunch! flesh against bone"
What onomatopoeia?
200
This type of figurative language describes the phrase: "When the cops came to arrest Justin, Evan said, 'Don't worry; I've got your back."
What is an idiom?
300

Personification, sensory language, figurative language or alliteration best describes the phrase: "I could feel the warm, soft breeze blowing in the nighttime air"

What is sensory language/ imagery?

300
Personification, hyperbole, figurative language or simile best describes the phrase: "The sun smiled on me as I hiked through Blue Hills"
What is personification?
300

Joyful, pleasant, regretful or content is the mood of Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"

What is content?

300
This poetic element best describes the phrase: "Honk went the horn and beep went the car!"
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Personification, simile, hyperbole or sensory language best describes the phrase: "You fold your paper-thin words up like origami"
What is simile?
400

Hyperbole, simile, personification or sensory language best describes the phrase: "The caged bird sings with fearful trill"

What is sensory language/ imagery/ personification?

400
This poetic element best describes the phrase: "I have a ton of homework to do that it's gonna take forever to finish!"
What is hyperbole?
400

A quatrain is made up of two, four, six or eight lines(s)

What is four?

400
This poetic element best describes the phrase "Quickly catching kids while they jubilantly jump"
What is alliteration?
400
This poetic element best describes the phrase: "Our relationship is like a rollercoaster"
What is simile?
500

These two poetic elements best describe the phrase: "My mother is the blackened paper fluttering down"

What are metaphor and sensory language/imagery?

500
This poetic element best describes the phrase: "My world revolves around you"
What is idiom?
500
A Cinquain, Diamonte, I Am or Bio poem relies on a syllable count in one of its structures
What is a Cinquain?
500

These three categories are what we analyze when comparing poetry and song lyrics: Sensory Language, Punctuation, Metaphors; Figurative Language, Sound, Graphics; Figurative Language, Sound, Repetition; or Sensory Language, Figurative Language, Graphics

What are Figurative Language, Sound, Repetition?

500
This poetic element best describes the phrase: "All the world's a stage and we are merely players"
What is metaphor?