Figurative language in poetry quick review

1. Figurative language in poetry quick review

2. Metaphor • A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one object or idea is applied to another- suggesting a likeness or analogy between them. Example: This homework was a breeze. Cooler than a polar bears toenails.

3. Personification: The attribution of human qualities to non human objects or ideas. Example: “And like the flowers beside them chill and shiver, will like the flowers beside them soon be gone” ~ Robert Frost

4. Alliteration • Repetition of consonant sounds. Example: Crazy Car Crash

5. Simile • A figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike things. Usually using the words “like” or “as a” Example: As big as a bus As busy as a bee The snow is like a blanket

6. In your journal copy the following and identify the poetic device used in each. You can choose from the following: Metaphor, simile, personification, and alliteration.Hint: Only the two types we are focusing on today are used below Sally Sells Sea Shells By The Sea Shore. In that very moment time stood still. Peter Piper Picked Pickles. Fear knocked on the door. Miss Mary Mack Oreo- Milk’s Favorite Cookie

7. Creating Figurative Language Graphic Organizer Personification Directions: Write a sentence personifying the nonhuman nouns. Then explain why you gave the noun that specific human characteristic. Future Explanation: Time Explanation: Wind Explanation: MoonExplanation:

8. Alliteration Directions: Using the word bank insert the word that bests exemplifies alliteration in each example. small bill birches Milk madness Wee Boys were short Much _____ is divinest sense. ~ Emily Dickinson When I see ______ bend left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some _____ been swinging them. ~ Robert Frost One ____ sleepe past, ____ wake eternally ~ John Donne Create three sentences using personification on your own. __________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. Create three sentences using personification. _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Create three sentences using alliteration. _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________