1. Figurative language My Poetry Booklet Figurative language
 Figurative language is used to help give a better, more clear, description of something. Such as:
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Personification
Rhyme
Symbolism
Stanza
Imagery
Tone
Free verse
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Name:………………………………..
Grade 9 ( )
Figurative language
My Poetry Booklet
 Figurative language is used to help give a better, more clear, description of something. Such as:
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Personification
Rhyme
Symbolism
Stanza
Imagery
Tone
Free verse
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Name:………………………………..
Grade 9 ( )

2. Simile Metaphor Simile Metaphor
It is a comparison of two unlike things using: like or as
It a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as; an implied comparison
Examples:
Examples:
1. She was as fast as a cheetah.
2. When she woke up her hair looked like a lion’s mane.
1. You are the wind beneath my wings.
2. The elephant was a bulldozer because he ran over the tree and knocked it down.
Exercise:
Exercise:
Write two sentences describing yourself using simile:
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Write two sentences describing the ocean using Metaphor:
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Simile
Metaphor
It is a comparison of two unlike things using: like or as
It a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as; an implied comparison
Examples:
Examples:
1. She was as fast as a cheetah.
2. When she woke up her hair looked like a lion’s mane.
1. You are the wind beneath my wings.
2. The elephant was a bulldozer because he ran over the tree and knocked it down.
Exercise:
Exercise:
Write two sentences describing yourself using simile:
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Write two sentences describing the ocean using Metaphor:
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3. Rhyme Alliteration Rhyme Alliteration
The words (typically at the end of the line) that sound the same
It is the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables
Examples:
Examples:
I went for a walk yesterday
And saw a purple butterfly, on my way.
1. Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Exercise:
Write two lines that rhyme about: the flower/ ship/ school/home/mother.
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Exercise:
Write a sentence using alliteration:
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Rhyme
Alliteration
The words (typically at the end of the line) that sound the same
It is the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables
Examples:
Examples:
I went for a walk yesterday
And saw a purple butterfly, on my way.
1. Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Exercise:
Write two lines that rhyme about: the flower/ ship/ school/home/mother.
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Exercise:
Write a sentence using alliteration:
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4. Personification Symbolism Personification Symbolism
It is the practice of representing things by symbols.
It is giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas.
Examples:
Examples:
1. The thunder clapped angrily in the distance.
2. She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
1. © : Means Copyright .
2. € : represent the currency Euro.
Exercise:
Exercise:
Write two sentences describing the rain and the flag using personification:
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Draw the Symbol of :
No smoking Coffee break
Personification
Symbolism
It is the practice of representing things by symbols.
It is giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas.
Examples:
Examples:
1. The thunder clapped angrily in the distance.
2. She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
1. © : Means Copyright .
2. € : represent the currency Euro.
Exercise:
Exercise:
Write two sentences describing the rain and the flag using personification:
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Draw the Symbol of :
No smoking Coffee break

5. Stanza Imagery Stanza Imagery Examples: Examples: Examples: Examples:
the use of vivid language to describe people, places, things, and ideas so that it creates a picture in your mind; appeals to the senses
Stanza is a group of lines that are part of a poem.
Examples:
I Love To Write Poems
(First Stanza)
I love to write
Day and night
What would my heart do
But cry, sigh and be blue
If I could not write
(Second Stanza)
Writing feels good
And I know it should
Who could have knew
That what I do Is write, write, write -    Unknown Author
Examples:
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.
Stanza
Imagery
the use of vivid language to describe people, places, things, and ideas so that it creates a picture in your mind; appeals to the senses
Stanza is a group of lines that are part of a poem.
Examples:
I Love To Write Poems
(First Stanza)
I love to write
Day and night
What would my heart do
But cry, sigh and be blue
If I could not write
(Second Stanza)
Writing feels good
And I know it should
Who could have knew
That what I do Is write, write, write -    Unknown Author
Examples:
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

6. Tone Free verse Tone Free verse
the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers)
verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
Examples:
Examples:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
 It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
From one thousand mountains the birds' flights are gone;
From ten thousand byways the human track has vanished.
In a single boat, an aged man, straw cloak and hat,
Fishes alone; snow falls, cold in the river.
Tone
Free verse
the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers)
verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
Examples:
Examples:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
 It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
From one thousand mountains the birds' flights are gone;
From ten thousand byways the human track has vanished.
In a single boat, an aged man, straw cloak and hat,
Fishes alone; snow falls, cold in the river.

7. Onomatopoeia Idiom Onomatopoeia Idiom Examples:
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it.
A set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.
Examples:
Examples:
–Kill two birds with one stone.
–Once and for all finally (usually putting an end to something)
I'm going to stop his behaviour once and for all! Let's get this over once and for all.
Pull out all the stops make every possible effort to do something
He pulled out all the stops on the exam. We're going to pull out all the stops on our presentation.
Hush Buzz roar hiss woof
Exercise:
Write some words that give the sound of an action:
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Exercise:
Write 2 idioms you usually use.
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Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it.
A set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.
Examples:
Examples:
–Kill two birds with one stone.
–Once and for all finally (usually putting an end to something)
I'm going to stop his behaviour once and for all! Let's get this over once and for all.
Pull out all the stops make every possible effort to do something
He pulled out all the stops on the exam. We're going to pull out all the stops on our presentation.
Hush Buzz roar hiss woof
Exercise:
Write some words that give the sound of an action:
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Exercise:
Write 2 idioms you usually use.
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