L3: Poetry for Beginners: What is Figurative Language?

How many stanzas does this poem have?

• 10

• 7

• 8

• 5

How do we know if it is a Simile?

• it compares without using "like" or "as"

• it compares and uses "like" or "as"

• makes noise 

What is the speaker comparing herself to? 

• a quiet mouse 

• a small mouse 

• a small animal 

How are similes and metaphor different? 

•  A metaphor says that two things are the same thing  without using "like" or "as"

• they both compare using "like" or "as"

"My belly was rumbling thunder" means...

• the speaker's stomach was making noise from hunger

• the storm outside was very loud

• the speaker had a storm in her stomach 

what is the word that she emphasize in the next figurative language? 

• "PERSON"

• "HUMAN"

• "IFICATION"

What is Personification?

• to give human QUALITIES to non-human things 

• to make things HUMAN

• to turn THINGS into HUMANS

What is the speaker giving life to in the second example?

• the mouse 

• the stairs 

• the lion

Can the cupcake call her name? What figurative language is this called?

• Simile

• PERSONification

• Metaphor

An idiom is...

• words that do not mean exactly what they are 

• giving human qualities to non-human things

• words that do are not taken seriously