Introduction to Poetry

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Language that belongs to another culture.

Language that includes facts and statistics.

Language that is used to create powerful pictures in our minds.

Language that we use all the time in our everyday speech.

What is the definition of figurative language?

A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.

A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.

Words that sound like the noise they describe.

Which of these is the definition of metaphor?

Which of these is the definition of simile?

Which of these is the definition of personification?

Which of these is the definition of onomatopoeia?

Letters, speeches and newspaper articles.

Sonnets, lyrics, ballads, haikus and odes.

Which of these are forms (types) of poetry?