Figurative Speech 1
Figurative Speech 2
Closed Reading
Figurative Speech Examples
Easter Egg Randomness
200

This Figurative speech is an extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

Hyperbole

200

This figure of speech is the repetition of an initial consonant sound.

Alliteration

200

The "STAR mark" represents WHAT in close reading?

Important Idea

200
"Super special spruce trees spring during the spring season."
Alliteration
200

What is the dog's name in the poem we read during our close reading?

JoJo

400

This Figurative speech is a direct comparison between two unlike things that have something important in common.

Metaphor

400

This figure of speech is a play on words that exploits multiple meanings of a word or similar sounding words, also used in 'Dad Jokes'.

Pun

400

"Underlining" indicates what in close reading?

Key Term

400

"Jumbo Shrimp"

Hyperbole

400

What is the greatest ELA Unit of All time?

Poetry
600

This figurative speech is the formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

Onomatopoeia 

600

This figurative speech is a stated comparison using like or as between two dissimilar things that have something in common.

Simile

600

What is the poem we examined during our close reading?

Watermelon

600

"The echo boomed as the rocks crashed into the sea below."

Onomatopoeia 

600

What animal had a poem made about it that did not have a deeper meaning?

Pelican

800

This figurative language has repetition of the final sound or syllable at the end of a line.

End Rhyme

800

This figure of speech occurs when opposite or contradictory terms appear together.

Oxymoron

800

How would you indicate a word is "unfamiliar" in a close reading?

Circle it

800

"The moon peeked through the clouds."

Personification

800

What was the name of the guy who talked about poetry on the TED Talk video we watched 4 times and never finished?

Daniel Tysdal

1000

This figurative speech is the repetition of sounds within a line of poetry.

Internal Rhyme

1000

This figurative language is sometimes called “imperfect rhyme” because the words sound close, but not exactly the same.

Slant Rhyme

1000

What is the purpose of the "fourth reading" during a close reading?

Reflect

1000

"Break the ice"

Idiom

1000

What is Mr. Mac's favourite poem of all time?

The Pelican Chorus