Figurative Language/Elements of Poetry

A repeating pattern of words, phrases or stanzas.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Metaphor

Extreme exaggeration....

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• sense words

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as...

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• personification

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words...

• sensed words

• repetition

• alliteration

• rhyme scheme

Groups of lines that make up the divisions of a poem...

• plot diagram

• paragraph

• monologue

• stanza

Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence below:

Karima played her music so loud that Ms.Lamb's ears fell off.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Words that appeal to the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch....

• simile

• metaphors

• sense words

• idiom

Language used to create a special effect...

• figurative language

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

Pictures created in your mind while reading through the use of figurative language or vivid descriptions ...

• imagery

• stanzas

• lines

• figurative language

Gallop gallantly on the grassland plains is an example of...

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration