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Use this template to learn the figurative language and think about examples for figures of speech so you can better understand each of them.
Find figures of speech in your favorite novels and poems.
How do you explain your choice?
Type in the explanation. Example:
- The lagoon is being compared with a mountain lake using the word 'as'.
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
- Almost all the words in the sentence begin with 'th'.
What is the literary work
in which you found the alliteration? Type in the genre.
Example: Thank You for the Thistle by Dorie Thurston - short story.
Onomatopoeia is the figure of speech that uses words whose sounds suggest their meanings. Think of words related to water, air, collisions, sounds, voice, etc.
What is the onomatopoeia that you found in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
'The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees...'.
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
'Moan' and 'murmuring' refer to the way doves and bees sound like.
What is the literary work in which you found the onomatopoeia? Is it a novel, short story or poem?
Example: Come Down, O Maid by Alfred Lord Tennyson - poem
Metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
What is the metaphor that you found in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
'The rain came down in long knitting needles.'
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
The rain is compared with 'long knitting needles', without the use of 'like' or 'as'.
What is the literary work in which you found the metaphor? Is it a novel, short story or poem?
Example:
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold - novel.
