Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

An exaggerated statement is a...

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does use like, as, or than

• words that sound like their meaning

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like what they mean

• an exaggerated statement

• a comparison using like, as, or than

• an expression not meant to be taken literally (ex. On cloud 9, raining cats and dogs)

Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

A group of lines in a poem, separated by space is...

• Verse

• Stanza

• Symbolism

• Theme

Two words that have opposite or very different meanings

• Couplet

• Imagery

• Oxymorons

• Limerick

A type of poetry that has no real rhyme or pattern

• Rhyme Pattern

• Meter

• Limerick

• Free Verse

Having the same sound at the end of two or more words

• Couplet

• Rhyme Pattern

• Alliteration

• Verse