Figurative Language in Poetry

Figurative language is

• not meant to be taken literally or seriously

• meant to be taken literally or seriously

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Label this poem

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b

c

d

title

poet

line 4

metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Identify the type of figurative language:

Her voice is like clear water 

That drips upon a stone 

In forests far and silent 

Where Quiet plays alone.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The figurative language in line 1 conveys/shows:

Her voice is like clear water 

That drips upon a stone 

In forests far and silent 

Where Quiet plays alone.

• appreciation

• anger

• disgust

• loneliness

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Personification is:

• an over exaggeration

• giving human/living qualities to something that is non-living/non-human

• a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

• A type of literal language meant to be taken as it is

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Label the poem.

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title

stanza 1

personification

poet

stanza 2

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The poet compares the fog to:

The fog comes 

on little cat feet. 

It sits looking 

over harbor and city 

on silent haunches 

and then moves on.

• a quiet, sneaking cat

• a loud, aggressive cat

• a city at night

• a slow boat

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

The figurative language and imagery convey which mood:

The fog comes 

on little cat feet. 

It sits looking 

over harbor and city 

on silent haunches 

and then moves on.

• peaceful

• terror

• anxious

• wonder

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

This poem is an example of:

I’m bigger than the entire earth

More powerful than the sea

Though a million, billion have tried

Not one could ever stop me.

I control each person with my hand

and hold up fleets of ships.

I can make them bend to my will

with one word from my lips.

I’m the greatest power in the world

in this entire nation.

No one should ever try to stop

a child’s imagination.

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is being EXAGGERATED in this poem?

I’m bigger than the entire earth

More powerful than the sea

Though a million, billion have tried

Not one could ever stop me.

I control each person with my hand

and hold up fleets of ships.

I can make them bend to my will

with one word from my lips.

I’m the greatest power in the world

in this entire nation.

No one should ever try to stop

a child’s imagination.

• a person's strength

• a child's voice

• the size of a fleet of ships

• a child's imagination

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4