Poetic Terms and Figurative Language

Identify the simile.

• The clouds were like fluffy cotton candy in the sky.

• The clouds were dark and threatened to rain.

• She liked to look up at the sky and imagine the cloud shapes being familiar objects.

• Every cloud has a silver lining.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• When it started raining, Sara said, "That's perfect, I mean who wants to come to the beach on a sunny day?"

• You are the sun in my sky.

• It is too hot to go outside. The sun could melt our skin.

• The sun greeted me each morning with warmth.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

In the sentence 'The trees danced in the wind', what figurative language technique is being used?

• Hyperbole

• Juxtaposition

• Personification

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an example of hyperbole?

• C) Your hands are as cold as ice.

• A) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• B) The cat flew to the moon.

• D) I must be cruel in order to be kind.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a pun?

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

• a seemingly absurb or self-contradictory statement that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

• A pun is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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CCSS.L.8.5A

What is an example of euphemism for someone who has died?

• He's deader than a doornail.

• He kicked the bucket.

• She bit the dust at the age of 90.

• He was laid to rest yesterday.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is an example of allusion?

• • A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.

• She's as slow as a turtle.

• It is getting late, she better hurry home before she turns into a pumpkin.

• People who can't trust cannot be trusted.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A term that has opposite words back-to-back EX: jumbo shrimp

• Rhyme

• Assonance

• Oxymoron

• Syllables

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Which of the following literary devices BEST describes these lines:

"that we'll forever be tied together, victorious

Not because we will never again know defeat"

• Simile

• Juxtaposition

• Irony

• Assonance

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Definition placing opposites nearby in order to highlight their differences.

• Euphemism

• Irony

• Juxtaposition

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5