Poetic Devices
The Romantic Age
Australia
Word of the Day
Christmas
100
This device contains either as or like.
What is a simile?
100
He has a glittering eye.
What/who is the Ancient Mariner?
100
An Aborigine of mixed blood.
What is a half-caste?
100
This adjective means modest.
What is demure?
100
He brings presents.
What/who is Santa Claus?
200
"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,/The furrow followed free,.."
What is alliteration?
200
He dances with the daffodils.
What/who is William Wordsworth?
200
This movie relates the story of Molly, Daisy and Gracie.
What is "Rabbit-Proof Fence"?
200
This adjective can be used about a student who shows care and effort.
What is diligent?
200
He had a very shiny nose.
What/who is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
300
"The sun came up upon the left/Out of the sea came he" (two answers required :)
What is personification + What is internal rhyme?
300
He wrote "The Lamb" (from "Songs of Innocence") and "The Tyger" (from "Songs of Experience")
What/who is William Blake?
300
Her name means "yellowish-brown flower".
What/who is N'goola?
300
An adjective used about a quality you were born with.
What is innate?
300
You can kiss under this plant at Christmas.
What is a mistletoe?
400
This is the meter that Shakespeare used.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
She won the game of dice.
What/who is Life-in Death/the Spectre Woman?
400
He ended up in prison despite being rather successful in the white world (first name and surname required)
What/who is William Jacob Woodward/Billy Woodward?
400
Your teacher learned this expression when she studied English in Yorkshire :-)
What is fair flummoxed?
400
Chip and Dale in Disney's Christmas show.
What are chipmunks?
500
This foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a trochee?
500
The title of the poem about the daffodils.
What is "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud"?
500
A.O. Neville's theory of "making" half-caste Aborigines white.
What is eugenics?
500
This adjective is used about a person who is able to do many things well, or about things that have many different uses.
What is versatile?
500
The plant with red berries appears in a famous Christmas Carol :-)
What is holly?
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