What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
The Weird Ones
Identification
Know Your Definitions
100
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
100
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
100
A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound when the word is spoken
What is onomatopoeia?
100

The bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.

What is hyperbole or personification

100

The giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits.

What is personification?

200

She is like the sun so bright. 

What is a simile?

200
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
200
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
The book was a weight, it was so heavy.
What is metaphor?
200

The emotional effect of a poem or a story.

What is the mood?

300

Clouds are ships that are in the sky.

What is a metaphor? or What is an Alliteration?

300

The monkey screamed at me; he got out of his car and screamed at me and then laughed while I laughed with him!

What is funny or humourous?

300
The repetition of beginning sound in atleast 2 or more words.
What is alliteration?
300
Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown can make thunder.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other.
What is an analogy?
400

The trees were as tall as skyscrapers!

What is hyperbole? or What is a Simile?

400
Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.
What is sad or depressing or dreadful?
400
Hints that tell what may happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
400
Hey diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
What is personification?
400
Words and phrases that help the reader visualize, or imagine what is happening, in literature.
What is imagery?
500

Like a phoenix, she passed her test after many tries. 

What is symbolism or simile. 

500
The day was long and hard, but I was the victor!
What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?
500

The repetition of sounds WITHIN a word, creating lines that ALMOST rhyme...but not quite.

What is assonance?

500

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.


What is happening at the end of each line in this poem?

What is a rhyme?

500
When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.
What is symbolism?
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