Figurative Language Devices

My image of poetry

Open up a new KEYNOTE document

1. Click create presentation.

2. Click “Harmony”

3. Change the title slide to read “Figurative Language.”

4. Add a new slide – ALWAYS use the slide with the photo and text.

alliteration

•the repetition of the consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words

“do or die”

“the sweet smell of success”

“now or never”

“safe and sound”

Rhyme (End Rhyme)

•the repetition of the sound at the end of two or more words. End rhyme occurs at the end of

lines. This one has a little car.

Say! What a lotof fish there are.

Yes. Some are red. And some are blue.Some are old. And some are new.

Some are sad.And some are glad.

And some are very, very bad.

Repetition

• The repeating of words of phrases done for an obvious intent or to emphasize an idea.

Keeping time, time, timeIn a sort of Runic rhyme,To the paean of the bellsOf the bellsTo the throbbing of the bellsOf the bells, bells, bells

onomatopoeia

•the use of words that imitate sounds

clang

sizzle

smack

pop

whir

crunch

simile

•a comparison made using “like” or “as”

O My Love’s like a red, red rose,

That’s newly sprung in June;

O My Love’s like the melody

That’s sweetly played in tune.

- Robert Burns

metaphor

•a comparison made without using “like” or “as”

My thoughts of you are the wavesThey are countless and appear constantly

To splash onto the shore of my mind

- Joyce Scarbrough

Imagery

• Language that appeals to the senses. Words or phrases that help you see, smell, hear, taste, or feel something.

• Ex. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach.• Three fields to cross till a farm appears;• A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch• And blue spurt of a lighted match.

Now…1. Take a few minutes to add a picture/image to each of your slides

that will help you remember the MEANING of the word.– Remember: Simply typing in the poetry term in

Google Images does NOT count as a meaningful picture. How Google “remembers” or associates the word might not have any use for you!

1. Locate another EXAMPLE for each slide.– Many of these are in “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout” – If you want more resources/examples, check the

Elements of Literature textbook – Use the “Index” and “Handbook of Literary Terms”

(page 931)

Rhyme (Internal Rhyme)

•the repetition of the sound at the end of two or more words. Internal rhyme occurs in the

middle of the same line of poetry.

I will remember December the way I wish it to be.Note the way it was. Reality is over-rated.

Metaphors

• Implied & extended

personification

•a type of metaphor in which human traits are given to something that is not human

They arranged themselves at the window

and counted the steps of the sun,

and they both took root in the carpet

where the topaz tortoises run.

“Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,”

said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

“Our traveling habits have tired us.

Can you give us a room with a view?”

- William Blake

stanza

•a group of lines in a poem - similar to a paragraph

To hear an oriole singMay be a common thing,Or only a divine. It is not of the birdWho sings the same, unheard,As unto crowd. The fashion of the earAttireth that it hearIn dun or fair.

So whether it be rune,Or whether it be none,Is of within; The “tune is in the tree,”The sceptic showeth me;“No, sir! In thee!”