Figurative Language and Poetry Review

That perches in the soul/and never stops at all

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Sonnet

• Slant Rhyme

The young couple tied the knot after dating for five years

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Soliloquy

Max is a human calculator because he's so good at math.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Allusion

The fat cat sat on the mat

• Slant rhyme

• Sonnet

• Internal rhyme

• Personification

The blizzard created a Pandora's Box of issues on the roads.

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

When Juliet talks to herself about her love for Romeo

• Soliloquy

• Simile

• Internal rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

A horse is a horse, of course, of course/ And no one can talk to a horse, of course...

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

The whinnying horses and mooing cows came crashing through the fence.

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

Shakespeare is famous for writing these 14-line poems.

• Stanza

• Soliloquy

• Idiom

• Sonnet

Stars and stripes stay/ Freedom is forever/ America is amazing!

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

• Allusion

• Alliteration