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Figurative Language
Examples
What am I?
Types of poetry
Sound devices
100
A phrase which compares two things using like or as
What is simile?
100
The tulips were nodding in the breeze.
What is personification?
100
A bird diving off a cliff to find his dinner in the ocean.
What is "The Eagle?"
100
Poem without any rhyme or rhythm
What is free verse?
100
Repeating the beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
200
Comparing two things not using like or as where one thing is said to be another
What is metaphor
200
Sky as blue as sapphire
What is simile?
200
A girl who would not take out the trash and drowned in it.
What is "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out"
200
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative?
200
Repeating the same word or phrase within a poem
What is repetition?
300
Using exaggeration to emphasize a point
What is hyperbole?
300
“At last the garbage reached so high, That finally it touched the sky.”
What is hyperbole?
300
A mother giving advice to a child about life.
What is "Mother to Son?"
300
Poem with the syllable pattern 5-7-5
What is a haiku?
300
Pow! Bam! Drip...
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
Saying the opposite of what is meant or the outcome is the opposite of what is expected
What is irony?
400
“But he loves with a love that was more than love –“
What is repetition?
400
The poem expresses the connections among a flowering plant, spring, and hope.
What is "Forsythia?"
400
a poem in which the poet arranges the letters and lines to create a visual image suggesting the poem’s subject
What is a concrete poem?
400
Language that appeals to one or more of the senses – sight, sound, taste, touch or smell
What is imagery?
500
Giving human characteristics to something non-human.
What is personification?
500
Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed
What is alliteration?
500
The poem describes a group of animals who asked for one thing and received something they didn’t expect.
What is "Frogs who wanted a King?"
500
a poem that expresses the author’s feelings about a since image or idea in musical language
What is lyrical poetry?
500
A word that imitates a sound
What is onomatopoeia