Poetry and Figurative Language

What is figurative language?

• When you use a word or phrase that has a normal everyday literal meaning.

• When you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.

• When you use a word or phrase that rhymes.

• When you use like or as to make a comparison.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is hyperbole?

• When you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.

• Words that imitate sounds.

• A repetition of consonant sounds used in a phrase or sentence.

• Giving an inanimate object human like qualities.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is a metaphor?

• When you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• Words that imitate sounds.

• A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is onomatopoeia?

• When you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.

• When you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.

• Words that imitate sounds.

• A repetition of consonant sounds used in a phrase or sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• Giving an inanimate object human-like qualities.

• When you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.

• A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is free verse?

• A style of poetry that has no specific rules or patterns.

• A style of poetry that tells a story and has rhythm and rhyme.

• A repetition of consonant sounds used in a phrase or sentence.

• Words that imitate sounds.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is personification?

• A repetition of consonant sounds used in a phrase or sentence.

• A style of poetry that has no specific rules or patterns.

• Giving an inanimate object human-like qualities.

• When you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is alliteration?

• When you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.

• A repetition of consonant sounds used in a phrase or sentence.

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• Giving an inanimate object human-like qualities.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is rhythm?

• Words that SOUND the same  in their endings.

• A style of poetry that has no specific rules or patterns.

• Can be described as the beat and pace of a poem. Rhythm is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse. 

• Words that imitate sounds.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is rhyme?

• Can be described as the beat and pace of a poem. Rhythm is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse.

• A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.

• When you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.

• Words that SOUND the same  in their endings.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4