Poetry and Figurative Language - Quarter 1 Review

Poetry or Prose? - Words are organized by sentence and paragraph.

Which type of figurative language is this? - My baby brother is cute as a button.

Which type of figurative language is this? - My backpack is heavier than all the bricks in the world combined!

Poetry or Prose? - Requires you to pause at the end of every line.

Compares two unlike things using a linking verb.

What are the 5 main linking verbs?

Poetry or Prose? - Words are organized by line and stanza.

Poetry or Prose? - Usually contains rhyming.

A type of literature in which the words are organized into normal sentences and paragraphs.

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.

A group of lines in a poem.

Poetry or Prose? - Has a rhythm like a song.

Compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."

Poetry or Prose? - Requires you to pause at periods, question marks, exclamation points, and commas.

Which type of figurative language is this? - The raindrops walked gracefully all around us.

A type of literature in which the words are organized into lines and stanzas.

Gives human qualities or traits to nonhuman things.

Which type of figurative language is this? - The clouds were fluffy pillows in the sky.