American Lit: Figurative Language

Symbol or metaphor?

"I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree

    And wore them all that evening in my hair:

Then in due season when I went to see

        I found no apples there."

• symbol

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Language that is not ​ (a)   is called ​ (b)   as in a ​ (c)   of ​ (d)   .

• literal
• figurative
• figure
• speech
• actual
• metaphysical
• fantasy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following

• simile

• "My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man..."

• personification

• "And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love

  Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green..."

• symbol

• "Continuous as the stars that shine

  And twinkle on the milky way,

  They stretched in never-ending line

  Along the margin of a bay..."

• metaphor

• "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

         Thou foster-child of silence and slow time..."

• symbol

• "Art thou pale for weariness / Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless / Among the stars that have a different birth..."

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Symbol or metaphor?

"I am of one element, Levity my matter, Like enough a withered leaf / For the winds to scatter."

• symbol

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

symbol or metaphor?

“All the world is a stage / All men and women merely players”

• symbol

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

​ (a)   make/s such ​ (b)   by by using the words like, as, or than, while ​ (c)   directly state/s that one thing is another. ​ (d)   is/are a ​ (e)   of speech in which a concept, or an object, or an animal is given human characteristics.

• S/similes
• comparisons
• metaphors
• personification
• figure
• S/symbols
• contrasts
• form

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Match the following

• metaphors

• "A light exists in spring / Not present on the year / At any other period."

• symbols

• "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

         Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

  Sylvan historian, who canst thus express

         A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme..."

• imagery

• "I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend. And I keep hearing from the cellar bin / The rumbling sound / Of load on load of apples coming in."

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which figure of speech: Jake was like a whirlwind, rushing from one activity to another?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Which one: The raindrops jumped and danced on the window?

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What are the rules of free verse?

• They have a rhyme scheme but no rhythmic meter.
• They have no rules to follow. 
• They have no rhyme requirements but must follow a rhythmic scheme.
• They must be about heartbreak and hard times.