Poetic Elements

Which of these sentences uses figurative language?

• Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849.

• A theme of "The Bells" is madness.

• To the turtle dove that listens, while she gloats, on the moon

• Hear the tolling of the bells

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is a metaphor?

• a direct comparison between two things

• an exaggeration

• a word that sounds like what it means

• a comparison using like or as

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a simile?

• a direct comparison

• a comparison using like or as

• giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing

• a figure of speech

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is hyperbole?

• an exaggeration

• a comparison

• a figure of speech

• rhyme

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an idiom?

• a comparison using like or as

• a word that sounds like what it means

• an extreme exaggeration

• a figure of speech

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is personification?

• a direct comparison

• visually descriptive language

• giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing

• repetition

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• a word that sounds like what it means

• visually descriptive language

• comparing

• a rhyme scheme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• The wind howled outside.

• The air felt like ice.

• The child is like sunshine.

• The child is a ray of sunshine.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is a simile?

• Her hands were as cold as ice.

• I walked a million miles to school.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• Her voice is music to my ears.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is hyperbole?

• The world's a stage.

• It's raining cats and dogs!

• I've told you a million times.

• This room is an oven.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A