We are now in our Poetry Unit. Students will be working on creating a book of their writings, to demonstrate their understanding of poetry and how it is written. Students will be tested over the figurative language terms and the spelling of those words.
Hyperbole- An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. (I tried a thousand times.)
Alliteration- The repetition of an initial consonant sound. (Petter Piper picked a pepper, If Peter Piper could pick a pepper, how many peppers could Peter Piper pick if he could pick a pepper?)
Metaphor- An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. (Your head is a rock.)
Onomatopoeia- The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. (Buzz, beep, bang)
Oxymoron- A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. (That was pretty ugly.)
Personification- A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. (The trees danced in the wind.)
Simile- A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. (His head is as big as the moon.)
Stanza- groups of lines in a poem. (like a paragraph)
I only like people exactly like me.
I never like people like you.
I'm not fond of people like him or like her.
I dislike all those people too.
