Figurative Language

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

A humorous 5-line poem with an AABBA rhyme Pattern..

• Symbolism

• Theme

• Meter

• Limerick

The main idea, topic, or subject of a poem.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Theme

• Verse