Figurative Language - Poetry Means the World to Me

What is a simile?

• uses like or as to compare two different things

• expression that is not literal/real

• repetition of first consonant sound

• ideas or animal given human attributes

What is an idiom?

• repetition of first consonant sound

• ideas or animal given human attributes

• uses like or as to compare to different things

• expression that is not literal/real

What is alliteration?

• ideas or animal given human attributes

• uses like or as to compare two different things

• expression that is not literal/real

• repetition of first consonant sound

What is alliteration?

• uses like or as to compare two different things

• repetition of first consonant sounds

• ideas or animal given human attributes

• expression that is not literal/real

Select all that applies. Which sentence(s) contain a simile?

• You were as brave as a lion.

• The woman is a rose.

• They fought like cats and dogs.

• The car is a bolt of lighting.

Select all that applies. Which sentence(s) contain a idiom?

• burn bridges

• raining cats and dogs

• Sally Squirrel

• open a can of worms

Select all that applies. Which sentence(s) contain an alliteration?

• said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow

• Smokey the Bear

• Mickey Mouse

• The students did not enjoy the school play.

Select all that applies. Which sentence(s) contain personification?

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• The wind whispered through dry grass.

• Time and tide wait for none.

• She was busy as a bee.

What figurative language is present in these lines 14-17? They should be used, used, used to say what you like or don't like

• idiom

• simile

• personfication

• alliteration

• metaphor

What figurative language is present in lines 10-13?

Words don't always have to be neat and polished like a statue

• personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor