Figurative Language by max

Figurative Language by max https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz Poetic Devices en-us 2017-10-31 01:38:44 UTC 2025-10-09 17:58:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Simile mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/201986348 .A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things things.
similes useully use connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or)

e.g American eagle
I saw an American eagle
He was as long as a plain
He was fierce to the wind,
The whiteness of the feathers were like clouds

]]> 2017-10-31 01:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/201986348 Metaphor mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202006054 A metaphor in a implied comparison between two unlike things.

e.g Don't Judge Me

Don't judge my cover; it's not mine.
I was given this to wear for the duration of my time.
Over time it has become creased, ripped, and worn,
A once perfect canvas the day I was born

]]> 2017-10-31 04:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202006054 Personification mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202361034 Personification is when you give human charistics to something that is not human
e.g Hey, Diddle, Diddle
Hey, diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

]]> 2017-11-01 01:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202361034 Aliteration mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202379923 the repeated first consonents sound in words
e.gPied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things

For skies of couple-colour as a brindled cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;

And áll trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

]]> 2017-11-01 04:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202379923 Assonance mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202380805 The repeated internal vowel sounds in words
e.g life and deaf
life it seems will fade away,
drifting further everyday,
getting lost within myself,
nothing matters no-one else.

]]> 2017-11-01 04:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202380805 consonance mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202382239 When consonants repeat in the middle of words
e.g Moving
As such a tide as moving seems,
to full of sound and foam,

oh yet we trust that somehow good,
will be the final goal a ill,
the pangs of nature sings will bring.

]]> 2017-11-01 04:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202382239 Repetion mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202744206 When words a re repeated constantly in poems.
e.g The bells
'To the swinging and the ringing

of the bells, bells, bells-

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells

Bells, bells, bells

]]> 2017-11-02 00:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202744206 Onomatopoeia mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202744816 words that are sounds(boom, bang, zap, beep, boom)
e.g Mom & Dad Are Home

Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!

]]> 2017-11-02 00:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/202744816 hyperbole mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203133013 Hyperbole is an exaggerate statement of something (like, she has said that several million times)
e.gSnow Day
Everyone looks like snowmen.
So much snow that it’s like walking up to heaven.
The fireplace is aglow like a giant’s oven.
Our cups of hot chocolate are piled
To the roof of the house
With marshmallows.
We scurry in the house, a bunch of hurried mice,
On a snow day]]> 2017-11-02 22:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203133013 Imagery mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203198105 language that appeals to the senses(sight, smell hearing, touch).
e.g fish:
His brown skin hung in strips,
like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.

]]> 2017-11-03 08:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203198105 Idiom mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203584152 An idiom refers to the construction of words of expression different from normal meaning.
e.gThe Lamb, by William Blake

Little Lamb, I'll tell thee;
Little Lamb, I'll tell thee:
He is called by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb
He is meek, and He is mild,
He became a little child.
I a child, and thou a lamb,
We are called by His name.
Little Lamb, God bless thee!
Little Lamb, God bless thee

]]> 2017-11-05 01:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203584152 Rhythm mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203584295 When words are arranged in such a way.
e.gMy Cat
My cat is nice.
My cat is fat.
My cat is cute.
I like my cat.

e.gTwenty-eight young men bathe by the shore
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.

She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
She hides, handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.

]]> 2017-11-05 02:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203584295 Rhyme mphillips310 https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203715259 When words have the same end sound.
e.gMary had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out, but still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about till Mary did appear

]]> 2017-11-06 01:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mphillips310/704tihp2ehiz/wish/203715259