Figurative Language Definitions
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
A magical thing And sweet to remember.
'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
What is AAAA?
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
When a poet uses sensory details to describe what is being seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted.
What is imagery?
What is it called when the last word of a line rhymes with the last word of a different line?
What is end rhyme?
True or false: the amount of lines in a poem is the same as the amount of sentences in a poem.
What is false?
A cultural saying that has no literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
Boom! went the speaker when it blew up at the loud concert.
What is onomatopoeia?
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses
and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
What is repetition?
What is the difference between assonance and rhyme?
What is assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds that make words seem like they rhyme but they do not?
Explain the difference between a narrator and an author/poet of a poem?
What is the narrator is whose perspective the poem is told from- could be real or fictional. The author/poet is the actual person physically writing the poem.