Poetry Prep

Identify the use of alliteration in the poem.

What order should you analyze a poem using the acronym we've used all year?

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Match the following figurative language terms and definitions.

• Comparison Using Like or As

• Hyperbole

• Intentional Exaggeration

• Personification

• Using human qualities to describe nonhuman things.

• Similie

• A word that imitates sound.

• Metaphor

• Direct Comparison

• Onomatopoeia

Match the following figurative language terms and examples.

• Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

• Similie

• Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.

• Metaphor

• [The daffodils] were beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

• Personification

• Silver bells! What a world of merriment their meoldy foretells1 How they tinkle.

• Hyperbole

• I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on a high o'er vales and hills.

• Onomatopoeia

Poets sometimes use the device of ​ by intentionally adding the ​ (a)   or ​ (b)   in close proximity to each other.  They do this for ​ (c)   , to bring ​ (d)   to an idea, or create a ​ (e)   . 

• same words
• phrases
• effect
• attention
• rhythm

Match the metaphor with its literal translation.

• Goodness.

• Love is a garden.

• Importance.

• Love is a battlefield.

• Surpise.

• Heart of gold.

• Challenge.

• His eyes were saucers.

• Change.

• Light of my Life.

How many stanzas are in this poem?

What type of figurative language is used?

I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom