Poetry Terms

What type of figurative language is shown?
Life is one long, adventurous roller coaster.

• simile
• onomatopeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
The run down house looked depressed.

• personification
• idiom
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her smile was as bright as sunshine.

• hyperbole
• simile
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
Nancy's nephew needs new notebooks.

• idiom
• oxymoron
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
She is so smart. She is a walking dictionary.

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
The ice crunched under my feet.

• oxymoron
• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I wish you could see
How much I love you!
What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words?

• meter
• rhyme
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

descriptive language that appeals to our senses

• imagery
• sonnet
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry

• couplet
• meter
• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4