Poetry Terms

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

• simile
• onomatopeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• personification
• idiom
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

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

• hyperbole
• simile
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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

• idiom
• oxymoron
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
I have a million chores to do tonight!

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister. 

• personification
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A poem that sounds similar to everyday speech (with no rhyme or meter) is called...

• free verse
• captive verse
• acrostic