Poetry Figurative Language

Rhyme Stanza Simile Metaphor Alliteration Personification Onomatopoeia

RHYME: when words end with the same sound Little miss Muffett Sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey When down came a spider And sat down beside her And frightened miss Muffett away

STANZA : a group of lines with a common theme Jack Spratt could eat no fat His wife could eat no lean And so, between them both you see They licked the platter clean

SIMILE : when something is being described as being LIKE or AS something else O My Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O My Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.

Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.

METAPHOR: when something is described as something else (like a simile without like or as) Example to show the difference: The man is like a lion – SIMILE The man is a lion - METAPHOR

A Book Is adapted from a poem by Kathy Leeuwenburg A book is an open flower scented pages, fragrant hours a lock and key that opens doors and sets minds free an ancient clock that speaks the times but never talks an open letter when read again the friendship's better an apple core with seeds inside for growing more a trusted friend that keeps its secret to the end

Galaxy By Elaine Magliaro Spun in space A web of stars… Fireflies caught On the black silk Of a summer night

ALLITERATION: when 2 or more words that are close together, begin with the same word or sound Caring cats cascade off Laughing lamas Lounging. Underneath yelling yaks, Yelling at roaming Rats.

Wind whistles through the air, while talking turtles shiver like sea horses while everyone is asleep.

PERSONIFICATION: when you give human characteristics to an animal or thing The Train I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step

The Cat & The Fiddle Hey diddle, Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon

ONOMATOPOEIA: when words sound like the sound they are describing water plops into a pond splish-splash downhill warbling magpies in tree trilling, melodic thrill whoosh, passing breeze flags flutter and flap frog croaks, bird whistles babbling bubbles from tap

THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls How many stanzas are there is this poem? A six one two five

Which words rhyme with each other? There are two groups of examples THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls Which words rhyme with each other? There are two groups of examples

Identify the figurative language: THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls In line 1 A onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Personification alliteration

Identify the figurative language: THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls In line 1 A onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Personification alliteration

Identify the figurative language: THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls In line 2 (there are two answers) A onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Personification alliteration

Identify the figurative language: THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls In line 4 A onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Personification alliteration

Identify the figurative language: THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls In line 5 A onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Personification alliteration

Identify the figurative language: THE EAGLE by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; 2 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 3 Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. 4 The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 5 He watches from his mountain walls, 6 And like a thunderbolt he falls In line 6 A onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Personification alliteration