ELA POETRY Flashcards
(10 cards)
Simile
Simile Poems by Denise Rogers
“Your teeth are like stars…”
Metaphor
“I’ve eaten a bag of green apples”
Poem: Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
Hyperbole
The poet Homer often made use of hyperbole in his epic poems.
“as loudly as nine or ten thousand men”
Personification
Green Day’s Good Riddance:
“Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go”
Idiom
Mending Wall, by Robert Frost
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
Alliteration
Three Grey Geese by Mother Goose
Three grey geese in a green field grazing, Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.
Onomatopoeia
The Raven:
The onomatopoetic “rapping” repeated so often in the poem “The Raven” is remembered by schoolchildren and adults alike for seemingly leading to an inexorable conclusion.
Sensory Language
From Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
[Mrs. Flowers’] skin was a rich black that would have peeled like a plum if snagged, but then no one would have thought of getting close enough to Mrs. Flowers to ruffle her dress, let alone snag her skin.
Figurative Language
A good example is from Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”:
A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Couplets
There are plenty of other couplets in literature as well. Take this classic example from the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer:
Singing he was, or fluting all the day;/He was as fresh as is the month of May.
