Figurative Language and Poetry

When words END with the dame sound it is called:

• rhythm

• alliteration

• assonance

• rhyme

In poetry, __________________ are like paragraphs.

• stanzas

• lines

• poems

• forms

Repeating the same consonant at the beginning of words is

• repetition

• alliteration

• personification

• rhythm

To give an inanimate object human qualities is...

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• idiom

Imagery appeals to us to use what when reading poetry

• picture books

• a dictionary

• our five senses

Busy as a bee is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• tone

A metaphor is...

• exaggeration

• giving an inanimate object a human quality

• comparison of two things using like or as

• comparison of two things not using like or as

Allusion is when...

• A writer references another text, person or event

• exaggeration

• something that isn't what it seems

• taking something literally

I have asked you to do this a million times! is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

What is the tone of this poem - I loved my friend. He went away from me. There's nothing more to say. The poem ends, soft as it began - I loved my friend. By Langston Hughes

• angry

• sad

• happy

• excited