Poetry/Figurative Language Study Guide

Giving human characteristics or traits to non-living things.

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

A form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines, in which there are five, seven, and five syllables per line and is usually about nature.

• Ballad

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Free Verse

A comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect.

• Personification

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Words that create a picture for you. It helps you see, hear, smell, or taste what someone is writing about.

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Words that sound like their meaning.

• Rhyme

• Ballad

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

The same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Haiku

The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginnings of words and syllables.

• Alliteration

• Ballad

• Metaphor

• Personification

A funny poem written with five lines. The first two lines and the last line all rhyme. The third and fourth lines rhyme. It often begins with, "there once was...."

• Haiku

• Ballad

• Limerick

• Free Verse

A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia