Figurative Language in Poetry

What is a metaphor?

• a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

• a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

What is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics?

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• repetition

What is imagery?

• a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses

• the use of words that imitate sounds

• the use, more than once, of an element of language—a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence

• the imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem

What is a simile?

• a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

• a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning using imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices​ (a)  

• figurative language

• speaker

• mood

• repetition

a literary work, generally composed in verse and using figurative language, typically composed using a set structure (i.e., organizational rules)

• short story

• poem

• prose

• novel

language that uses words and phrases to express a meaning that is different from the literal meaning (e.g., metaphor, allusion, etc.)

• poetry

• figurative language

• irony

• diction

What poety element is in blue?

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

What poetry element _{(hint: look at the blue words)}

Dad released a belch from the pit of his stomach and the dog said, "bow-wow".

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

What poety element is in blue?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile