Cremation of Sam McGee - Figurative language

What is a stanza in poetry?

• a group of lines

• 5 lines

• a type of rhyming pattern

• the rhythm of the poem

Which of these is likely a definition of figurative language?

• language that is meant to be taken literally and just as it is written

• language that uses words or expressions to convey meaning different from a literal interpretation

• words that have patterns of rhythm and rhyme

• language that we use to make writing more interesting

What is a metaphor?

• comparison of two unlike things that have something in common

• comparison of two things using the word like or as

• an exaggeration

• a sound that is also a word

What is a simile?

• a comparison of two things using like or as

• an exaggeration

• a comparison of two unlike things that have something in common

• words with similar meanings

What is a cliché?

• a word or phrase that has become very familiar and is often overused

• a word or phrase the has multiple words starting with the same sound

• a phrase that doesn't have the same meaning as what it says and is familiar to a group of people

• a figure of speech in which two terms appear to contradict each other

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of usually initial (first) consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• a sometimes humorous exaggeration

• a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• giving something human qualities

What is a hyperbole?

• a sometimes humorous exaggeration

• a word or phrase that has become very familiar and is often overused

• the repetition of usually initial (first) consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• a word that imitates the sound associated with it

What is an idiom?

• a phrase that doesn’t have the same meaning as what it says and is familiar to a group of people

• a phrase that starts and ends with the same rhyme

• a word that imitates the sound associated with it

• giving something human qualities or characteristics

What is personification?

• when human characteristics are given to an animal or object

• comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• an exaggeration

• an expression that has been used so often that it has become boring

What is an onomatopoeia?

• word that is also a sound

• an exaggeration

• giving human traits to something non-human

• comparing two unlike things that have something in common, saying one thing is the other