Figurative Language
Types of Poetry & Other Stuff
Digging Deeper
Devices
Name that device
100

when two unlike things are compared without the use of like or as

What is a metaphor?
100

a seventeen syllable poem written in three lines

What is a haiku
100

finding similarities and differences whether in a piece of writing or between different pieces of writing

What is compare and contrast?

100

Words where the sound suggests the meaning

What is onomatopoeia?

100

"I'm getting married in the morning! Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime."

What is ONOMATOPOEIA?

200

the use of exaggeration as a device or figure of speech

What is hyperbole?
200

a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters

What is a narrative poem?

200

Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel, didn't care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous. The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!

 WHAT ARE TWO EXAMPLES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FOUND IN THIS STANZA?

What is "CRUEL AND CAVERNOUS" - ALLITERATION "THE BEAR SAID, ISABEL, GLAD TO MEET YOU" - PERSONIFICATION   "Isabel, Isabel"  REPETITION

Bear/Care, Ravenous/Cavernous-Rhyme

200

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word

What is ALLITERATION?

200

While I nodded, nearly napping...

What is ALLITERATION?

300

when words use like or as to make a comparison between two unlike things

What is a simile?
300

 form of light verse depicting imaginative characters in amusing situations of fantasy, whimsical in tone and with a rhythmic appeal, often employing fanciful phrases and meaningless made-up words

What is nonsense poetry?
300

Statues above me, Mighty they stand, I might be scared, If they weren’t my towering friends. WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THIS POEM?

What is "IF THEY WEREN'T MY FRIENDS?" PERSONIFICATION

300

The narrator of a poem

What is the speaker?
300

The sun did not shine./ It was too wet to play./ So we sat in the house. All that wet, wet, wet day.” (not RHYME)

What is REPETITION?

400

when an inanimate object is given human qualities

What is PERSONIFICATION?

400

the repeating of a word, line, or stanza in poetry

What is repetition?

400

 In the forests late at night, I saw a really frightening fright, It was scary and really mean, I think I saw a goblin machine! What is the rhyme scheme?

What is AABB?

400

language that appeals to the senses of sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell

What is imagery?

400

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!


What is RHYME?

500

the use of words to create a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

What is irony?
500

he underlying meaning of the poem

What is theme?

500

 Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain. What is the rhyme scheme?

What is ABCDC?

500

the feeling that a piece of writing produces in the reader

What is the mood?

500

All the world's a stage, and we are merely players.

What is a METAPHOR?