Figurative Language Vocabulary in Review

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Figurative Language Vocabulary in Review

• Audra Robertson
• Grade 6 Holbrook

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A fly and a flea in a flue is an example of
what?
Alliteration
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Giving human characteristics to objects or
animals is called
personification
Example The sun smiles down on us.
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What is one verse of poetry called?
stanza
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Who is telling the story in poetry?
the speaker
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I went fer Ma. Is goin to the lake is an
example of what?
dialect
A language not accepted as correct in
grammar, pronunciation, or vocabulary.
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Her smile was like a beacon of hope. is an
example of what type of figurative language?
simile
A comparison of two persons or things using
like or as.
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What is poetry that has no regular rhyme or meter?
free verse
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The use of words whose sounds give a suggestion
to your senses is
onomatopoeia
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He could probly eat a mountain is an example
of what?
hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration so dramatic that the
statement is unbelievable.
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Away down the valley. Away down the hill.
Is an example of
Repetition
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What is a limerick?
A five line poem with an AABBA rhyme pattern.
Usually a light humorous or nonsensical poem.
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Sparkling in the blue Lights in heaven shine
softly Dark night envelops. Is a what?
haiku
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What are mental images?
imagery
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What is a metaphor?
a comparison that describes one thing as if it
were another thing
The large stars were the sheep
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Words used in an unusual, rather than expected,
or exact ways
Figurative Language
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And out past the mill Away down the hill is
an example of what?
rhyme
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He flew off the handle.is an example of what?

• idiom
• An expression having a special meaning, not a
  literal meaning.

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What is this?
a concrete poem

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g n e Dachshund
n i r
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comes the lady with the diamond r t r!
walking a dog like a sausage on a s i
there goes a dog with his nose in the a
walk the l with the pur h
i a p a
n d l
i g y
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