Figurative Language
His belly shook like a bowl full of jello.
What type of figurative language is this?
Simile
- Repetition of VOWEL SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.
Example:
•Repeating the “eh” sound in the words: “crescent,” “flesh,” “extending,” “medicine” and “death”
Assonance
How the writer makes you feel through words and description
Mood
•The form of a poem involves the physical arrangement of the words on the page, sometimes involving rhyme and rhythm.
•What do we call a sentence or fragment of sentence.
Line
The waves beside them danced.
What type of figurative language is this?
Personification
"The hiss of a snake.”
“The buzz of a bee"
What type of sound device is this an example of?
Onomatopoeia
The poem's message about life; it's not just one word.
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up....."
Theme
•What do we call a group of more than one line?
Hint: Similar to a paragraph on a text page
Stanza
My father is a tall, sturdy oak.
What type of figurative language is this? What is being compared?
Explain.
Metaphor. The father and a sturdy oak tree. He must be strong and solidly built.
"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" What type of sound device is this?
Repetition
" I wandered lonely as a cloud..."
What is this an example of?
Simile- I......lonely as a cloud
What do you call a pair of lines that rhyme? This may be a poem in itself or part of a larger poem.
Example:
The artist stirred some blue and green
To paint an underwater scene
Couplet
I could sleep for a year.
What type of figurative language is this?
What does this mean?
Hyperbole
The person is super tired.
"I looked at the shell in the ocean
I looked at the bell in the sea,
I noticed the smell and the motion
Were very peculiar to me.”
Which sound device does this poem have?
Rhyme
"The sun is rich
And gladly pays
In golden hours,
Silver days...."
What type of figurative language is in this poem>
Personification- The sun is rich and gladly pays
"...until the ball, slowing, balances
itself on his hairline,
the hot sun and sweat filling his eyes
as he jiggles this way and that, then flicking it up
gently, hunching his shoulders....."
What do we call vivid descriptions used to produce
mental images?
Imagery
Repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING of at least two words in a line of poetry.
Examples:
•“the frog frolicked frivolously on the forest floor.”
• “…Little skinny shoulder blades Sticking through your clothes…”
•“…struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet…”
Alliteration
"The rose bushes seemed to spread their petals as visitors passed.
The purple petunias sat mocking the irises that were not as colorful as usual.
Towering above the other plants, the sunflowers were a fence protecting the geraniums."
Can you find several examples of the elements of poetry?
Alliteration- purple petunias
Personification- petunias sat mocking the irises
Metaphor - the sunflowers were a fence protecting the geraniums