Poetry
Figurative Language
Prefixes, Roots, & Suffixes
Figurative Language Examples
Elements of reading and writing
100

A paragraph in a poem 

What is a stanza?

100

A comparison using like or as. 

What is a simile? 

100

non-

What is not? 

100

Life is a rollercoaster. 

What is a metaphor? 

100

What the passage or paragraph is about.

What is the main idea?

200

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

What is rhyme scheme? 

200

Giving animals or objects human-like characteristics. 

What is personification? 

200

co-

What is together? 

200

He is as brave as a lion. 

What is a simile? 

200

The reason why an author writes. 

What is author's purpose? 

300

A Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third

What is a haiku?

300

A comparison that does not use the words like or as.

What is a metaphor?

300

medi

What is middle?

300

The flowers danced to the wind.

What is personification? 

300

When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.

What is context clues?

400

The underlying message, or "big idea". 

What is theme?

400

The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.

What is alliteration?

400

pre- 

What is before? 
400

CRASH! WHACK! BOOM!

What is onomatopoeia?

400

The feeling the author wants the reader to get.

What is mood?

500

This author wrote The Road Not Taken.

Who is Robert Frost? 

500

Extreme exaggeration. 

What is hyperbole? 

500

pyro

What is fire?

500

Rachel ran right until she realized she was running round and round.

What is alliteration? 

500

The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.

What is tone?