Figurative Language
A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or resembles.
Simile
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
Relates to the arrangement of lines and rhyme patterns.
Form
A comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, or resembles.
Metaphor
The snow was like a light bulb.
Simile
A single unit in a poem.
Giving a non-human human like characteristics.
Personification
Her heart is gold.
Metaphor
Tone
An extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
You could tell that the plants were begging for water.
Personification
Creates images in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Saying something when you mean something different.
Idiom
It's raining cats and dogs.
Idiom
The literal definition of a word.
Denotation