Figurative Language and Poetry Terms

1. Figurative Language and Poetry Terms Alliteration and Rhyme

2. Alliteration • Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds at the beginning of words. • Examples: • sad steps • grey as the gloomy gook • a noble knight

3. How many examples of alliteration can you find? “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out?

4. Homework: Tongue Twister Sheet

5. Rhyme • Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the end of words. • Examples: • cat, bat, vat • wing, ping, swing

6. End Rhyme End rhyme is when words rhyme at the end of the lines of a poem. Example: Jack and Jill Went up a hill

7. Internal Rhyme Internal rhyme is when a word in the middle of the line of a poem rhymes with the word at the end of that line. Examples: The red bike is the one I like The tail of the blue gibbon looked like a long ribbon

8. Examples of Rhyme

9. Homework: Write two examples of end rhyme and two examples of internal rhyme. Or Write a 6 line poem with at least three examples of rhyme.