Figurative Language, Poetry

Words whose sounds suggest their meaning

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• simile

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

group of words whose meaning is different than their literal meaning

• idiom

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.RL.5.4

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

repetition of the same initial consonant sound

• alliteration

• metaphor

comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is another

• metaphor

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

descriptive language that appeals to the senses

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3D

using the same word, line, phrase, or stanza more than once

• simile

• repetition

a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in prose

• hyperbole

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5