Poetry Figurative Language Types of Figurative Language often
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Poetry: Figurative Language
Types of Figurative Language often used in Poetry: • Simile • Metaphor • Personification • Alliteration • Onomatopoeia
Simile • An implied comparison usually using “like” or “as”
Simile • Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.
Simile • He ran down the field like a freight train.
Simile • She was as quiet as a mouse.
Metaphor • The process of describing one thing as if it were another. • Does not use “like” or “as”
Metaphor • Our project is almost finished. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Metaphor • He had butterflies in his stomach.
Metaphor • He carried the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Personification • A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.
Personification • The sun peeked over the mountain tops.
Personification • One lonely slice of pizza remained.
Personification • After a long day of work, the swimming pool was calling my name.
Alliteration • The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more closely associated words.
Alliteration • Like loads of laundry lying on the lovely linoleum.
Alliteration • Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration • Those creepy crawly critters caused a cramp in my cranium.
Onomatopoeia • A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Onomatopoeia • The water gurgled as it flowed down the drain.
Onomatopoeia • The storm clouds rumbled across the sky.
Onomatopoeia • It seemed everyone was sniffling during the cold and flu season.
• Simile • Metaphor • Personification • Alliteration • Onomatopoeia Types of Figurative Language
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- Always often rarely never
- Identify the sound device or the figurative language
- Introduction to poetry figurative language
- What figurative language rhymes
- Intro to poetry billy collins
- Enjambment example in poetry
- Poems with sound devices and figurative language
- Poems are often organized into
- The lightweight fighter lost so much weight
- Figurative language types
- Examples of juxtaposition
- Personification for fire
- Metaphysical poetry
- Experimentation in modern poetry
- Famous lyric poems
- Augustan age and romanticism
- Almond tree poem
- Literal or figurative language
- What does figurative language mean
- Literal language vs figurative language
- Literal languag
- My brother is a dragon metaphor
- Is figurative language a language feature
- Why is accounting called the language of business?