What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
The Weird Ones
Identification
Know Your Definitions
100

The pretty proud princess paid for the purse with pounds.

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 it names.

What is onomatopoeia?

100

The bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.

What is hyperbole? and What is a metaphor?

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 fair.

What is a simile?

200

Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.

What is scary?

200

Extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

200

We will not be afraid; we will not be intimidated,for we are stronger than we look. We will never surrender.

What is anaphora?

200

The emotional effect of a poem or a story, how the audience or readers feel as they read a poem or a story.

What is the mood?

300

Clouds are ships which sail the skies.

What is a metaphor?

300

The monkey screamed at me; he got out of his car and screamed at me!

What is funny or humourous?

300

The repetition of beginning sound in at least two or more neighboring words words.

What is alliteration?

300

He came in first and won the gold medal, and  even made it to state and regional, but he did not win any medals.

What is polysyndeton?

300

The comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other. Ex. A hat is to the head as a shoe is to the foot.

What is an analogy?

400

She is a daughter, a teacher, a wife, a mother, a friend.

What is asyndeton?

400

Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.

What is gloomy, 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, or language that appeals to the senses or paints vivid mental pictures.

What is imagery?

500

"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."

What is assonance?

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

Like King Arthur, he ruled with strength and wisdom.

What is allusion?

500

When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.

What is symbolism?

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