Figurative Language in "The Willow and the Ginkgo"

What is PERSONIFICATION?

• an over-exaggeration

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

• giving human qualities to something that isn't human

What is a METAPHOR?

• repetition of the same beginning sound several times in a sentence

• the use of sensory descriptions to describe the way something tastes, feels, looks, smells, or sounds

• comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

What is ALLITERATION?

• repetition of the same beginning sound several times in a sentence

• giving human qualities to something that isn't human

• words that have the same ending sound

What is a SIMILE?

• words that wound like action in real life

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

• comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

What is an ONOMATOPOEIA?

• repeating the same beginning sound several times in a sentence

• a word that sounds like action in real life

• an over-exaggeration

"The ginkgo is like a crude sketch" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"The willow's branches are like silken thread" is an example of what kind of figurative language?

• Simile

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

"The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete

Like a city child, it grows up in the street"

is an example of what two kinds of figurative language?

• Hyperbole & onomatopoeia

• Personification & Simile

• Alliteration & Rhyme

What is the poet saying about the Willow tree?

• It's an ugly tree

• It's a beautiful tree

• It's a strange tree

What is the poet saying about the Ginkgo tree?

• Though it's not the prettiest tree, they still love it

• It's an ugly tree

• It's the prettiest tree