Figurative Language

Poetry Language

Literal Language

The use of words, phrases, and sentences that mean exactly what is written.

Example:  We have a dog named Ace.

Subject | Subject

Sound devices and Figurative Language

What are they?

• Poets can uses this language in a poem

• NOT always included in a poem

​- poet uses the sound of words to illustrate the message of a poem

-helps the reader "hear" the poem

​Sound Devices

​-the repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a line

-Rhyme scheme: rhyming pattern in a poem

Sound device: Rhyme

Multiple Choice

Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?

• Banana and Apple

• Cry and Pie

• Baby and Lady

• Fast and Furious

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme for this poem

• ABCD

• ABAB

• ABBA

• BABA

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​ a word that imitates the sound it represents

Sound devices: Onomatopia

Multiple Choice

Find the onomatopoeic word.

• Graceful

• Swooshed

• Into

• No onomatopoeic word

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Mrs. Davis was sitting by her pond listening to the frogs croak.  

• croak

• Mrs. Davis

• frogs

• pond

​the same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines 

Sound Device: Alliteration

Multiple Choice

Which is the best example of alliteration?

• Only three girls came to the picnic.

• She wants to see that movie.

• I like popcorn, peanuts, and Pepsi when I watch movies.

• The sun was in my eyes all day and I got a headache!

Multiple Choice

Which of these is alliteration?

• All the animals left the zoo.

• The chirping cheetah raced across the land.

• The curious dog left his house at night.

• The hungry cat searched for a quick meal.

​-the same vowel sounds in nearby words

Sound Device: Assonance

Multiple Choice

The sleeping geese recline their heads.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• None of the Above

Multiple Choice

Do you like blue?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• None of the above

-language that can not be taken seriously

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Figurative Language

​language used to create pictures in your mind

Uses the 5 senses as an explanation

Figurative Language:Imagery

Multiple Choice

Do we use our 5 senses in imagery: smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing?

• Yes

• No

• I don't know

• maybe

Multiple Choice

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't

• By expressing how the author is feeling

• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see

• By telling the mood

Multiple Choice

What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight

• Sound

• Touch 

• Taste

​-Comparing two things using the word "like" or "as"

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Figurative Language: Simile

Multiple Choice

Those boys are like 2 peas in a pod

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

The Math test was as easy as ABC

• Simile

• Metaphor

​comparing two things that are not similar in a way that can’t be true

-not using "like" or "as"

Figurative Language: Methapor

Multiple Choice

It’s so cold, the window is ice.

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

Multiple Choice

1.When I’m hungry, I can eat like a horse.

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

​ giving human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object

Figurative Language: Personafication

Multiple Choice

"The wind whistled a happy tune as I walked along the hard mountain trail."
What human characteristic is being given?

• Whistling

• Happiness

• Walking

• Hiking

Multiple Choice

What's the meaning of this personification?
"The camera loves me!"

• Photography is one of my hobbies.

• I own an expensive camera.

• Photos of me are always really good. 

• I like to visit art museums.

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of personification?

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse

• The sun is like a light bulb

• The Sun smiled at us

• I want to be awesome

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

• Only similes compare two unlike things.

• Only metaphors use like or as in the comparison

• Similes are literal statements

• Similes use like or as, while metaphors do not

Let's see what you have learned!

Multiple Choice

Which sound device is being used in this line?

Softly and slowly the snowflakes fell

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

a strong, regular, repeated pattern of sounds

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Rhythm

Multiple Choice

the repetition of the initial consonant letter or sound

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"For they thought if only Casey could get one whack at that."

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• ballad

• stanza

Multiple Choice

Maggie and Milly and Molly and May is:

• personification

• point of view

• a hyperbole

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" is

• a haiku

• a metaphor

• alliteration

• a stanza