Poetry and Figurative Language Vocabuluary

What is Alliteration

• Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter (rhythm)

• The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a line of a poem or song

• When words that start with the same sound are used close together in sentences or phrases

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse (AABB or ABAB)

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is Dialect?

• A particular form of a language which is used in a specific region or social group (y'all )

• Extreme exaggeration for effect

• When writers reuse words, phrases or images for effect

• A word that imitates a sound

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is Free Verse?

• The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a line of a poem or song

• Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter (rhythm)

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse (AABB or ABAB)

• a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound, a "beat"

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is Hyperbole?

• It makes the comparison by saying that something IS something else.

• A phrase or sentence that does not literally mean what it says; it's an expression

• When words that start with the same sound are used close together in sentences or phrases

• Extreme exaggeration for effect

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an Idiom?

• Extreme exaggeration for effect

• A phrase or sentence that does not literally mean what it says; it's an expression

• It makes the comparison by saying that something IS something else.

• Giving human characteristics (qualities) to non-human things

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is Imagery?

• Using any or all of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell and taste) and/or figurative language to create a mental image

• When writers reuse words, phrases or images for effect

• A particular form of a language which is used in a specific region or social group (y'all )

• A comparison between two unlike things that uses like or as

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a Metaphor?

• A word that imitates a sound

• A comparison between two unlike things that uses like or as

• It makes the comparison by saying that something IS something else.

• Giving human characteristics (qualities) to non-human things

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is Onomatopoeia?

• A word that imitates a sound

• Using any or all of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell and taste) and/or figurative language to create a mental image

• Extreme exaggeration for effect

• When words that start with the same sound are used close together in sentences or phrases

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is Personification?

• It makes the comparison by saying that something IS something else.

• Using any or all of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell and taste) and/or figurative language to create a mental image

• Giving human characteristics (qualities) to non-human things

• A phrase or sentence that does not literally mean what it says; it's an expression

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is Repetition?

• The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a line of a poem or song

• When writers reuse words, phrases or images for effect

• a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound, a "beat"

• A section of poetry, like a paragraph in writing

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4