Poetry/Figurative Language Vocabulary

My cat is as sweet as a piece of candy

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

The sand is a blanket on my toes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The hamburger was so large that it weighed a ton.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The leaves danced in the breeze.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I heard the bee buzz around my head.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

The bread is rock hard.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

She sells seashells by the sea shore.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Groups of lines in a poem are called 

• stanzas
• sections 
• paragraphs 
• parts 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

When words end with the same sounds, the words 

• verse 
• rhyme 

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

A comparison of two unlike things using "as" or "like" 

• hyperbole 
• metaphor 
• alliteration 
• simile 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3