Poetic Elements and Figurative Language

Leaves can't really dance. What might really be happening?

• The leaves are dancing through the lawn.

• Whoever wrote that is just going crazy since that could never happen.

• The wind is making the leaves move across the lawn.

• When music plays, the leaves dance.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

In the darkness of the night

Who could see you speeding by

Like a comet in the sky.

Which is NOT found in this stanza?

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Personification

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

bark-bark-barking is an example of which of the following?

• simile and alliteration

• onomatopoeia and repetition

• repetition and hyperbole

• onomatopoeia and hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

human qualities or ideas are given to non human things

• idiom

• alliteration

• imagery

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

author's use this with descriptive words to create a picture in the reader's mind

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.8.5

comparing 2 unlike things using "like", "as", "than" or "resembles"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

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CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

What type of figurative language is present in the following excerpt from "Worlds Afire?"
I thought a tiger’s swipe
was fast
until I saw the fire spread.
It was like a dam burst -
water rushing
with no purpose
except to move.

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the figurative language:
I felt like a fish out of water.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

Identify the figurative language:
Her hair was a bird's nest of tangled locks.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor 

• idiom

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.  Your heart's an empty hole.

• It came without packages, boxes or bags!

• Roast beast is a feast I can't stand in the least!

• It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D