Figurative Language Vocabulary Terms for Poetry Unit

What is a rhyme?

• a group of lines in a poem

• words that have the same ending sound. Example: tree, bee

• an author of poetry

• compares two unlike things by saying one is the other. Example: She is a night owl.

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What is rhythm?

• a beat and/or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Example: da da dadada da da dadada

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

• lines or words that are repeated. Example: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…

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What is a Simile?

• Words that help paint a picture in the reader’s mind. Example: Glittering white, the blanket of snow covered everything in sight.

• Words that sound like the object or action they refer to. Example: Pow, Bang, Zap, Pop

• Uses the words like or as to compare two unlike things. Example: He is as quiet as a mouse.

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What is a Hyperbole?

• an author of poetry

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

• giving human qualities to non-human things. Example: The angry ocean swallowed the tiny ship.

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What is Repetition?

• lines or words that are repeated. Example: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…

• repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words. Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

• Words that help paint a picture in the reader’s mind. Example: Glittering white, the blanket of snow covered everything in sight.

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What is an Alliteration?

• a beat and/or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Example: da da dadada da da dadada

• Words that sound like the object or action they refer to. Example: Pow, Bang, Zap, Pop

• repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words. Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

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What is Personification?

• giving human qualities to non-human things. Example: The angry ocean swallowed the tiny ship.

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

• a group of lines in a poem

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What in an Onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like the object or action they refer to. Example: Pow, Bang, Zap, Pop

• lines or words that are repeated. Example: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…

• repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words. Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

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What is imagery?

• compares two unlike things by saying one is the other. Example: She is a night owl.

• Words that sound like the object or action they refer to. Example: Pow, Bang, Zap, Pop

• Words that help paint a picture in the reader’s mind. Example: Glittering white, the blanket of snow covered everything in sight.

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What is a Metaphor?

• Words that sound like the object or action they refer to. Example: Pow, Bang, Zap, Pop

• compares two unlike things by saying one is the other. Example: She is a night owl.

• a beat and/or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Example: da da dadada da da dadada

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