Fancy literary terms
Poems
This isn't literal y'all
Crack-a-lackin' Poems
Rockin' the vocab
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What is comparisons using a word such as like or as
Simile
100
This poem's theme is education and the strength of women
What is "Women" by Alice Walker
100
Is language that is imaginative comparisons and is not literally true
What is figurative language
100
What is the subject of "Ballad of Birmingham"
What is a child wanting to participate in the civil rights freedom march dies in a church that is bombed.
100
The repetition of the same consonant sound in several words, usually at the beginnings of words: fragrant flowers, hot and heavy, dog days
What is alliteration
200
What is giving human qualities to inanimate objects
personification
200
Walker uses an implied metaphor, suggesting rather than stating a comparison. What does she compare women to?
What is compares women fighting for their children's education to generals leading soldiers on a battlefield
200
Is a writer's choice of words
What is diction
200
What is the tone of "Legal Alien"
What is frustrated, discontented, and angry
200
My imagination ran wild, is an example of what vocabulary word?
What is personification, yo!
300
What is obvious and intentional exaggeration
hyperbole
300
In "Women" what is the speaker's tone?
What is positive portrayal emphasizing the strength of women with words and phrases like "husky of voice," "stout of step," and "battered down doors".
300
is the use of words that sound like what they mean. When we say a cannon "booms" or bacon "sizzles".
What is onomatopoeia
300
What is the theme of "Legal Alien"
What is cultural tension present in the lives of Mexican- Americans
300
My stomach was twisted in knots, is an example of what vocabulary word?
What is a metaphor
400
What is the attitude expressed toward its subject or audience
tone
400
What is an example of irony in "Ballad of Birmingham"
What is the mother refusing to let her participate in the freedom march and instead sends her to a safe place, the church.
400
Is the repetition of accented vowel sounds
What is rhyme
400
What literary device is used in line 16, and what is the poet suggesting?
What is a metaphor. The poet is suggesting that the symbol "token" suggests that the speaker has no individual identity or value. the speaker is a medium of exchange between cultures.
400
A traveling flake of snow, is an example of what word?
What is personification
500
What is a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
extended metaphor
500
What emotional effect does the repetition in "Ballad of Birmingham" add to the poem?
What is "No, baby, no, you may not go" emphasizes the words "baby" "child" "children" emphasize that the victims were the most innocent and helpless members of society.
500
What is the rhyme scheme of "Women" and "Legal Alien"
What is free verse
500
What does theme mean?
What is the meaning, or main idea, of the poem, usually involving some insight into human existence
500
Her hair was as red as flames, is an example of what vocabulary word?
What is an simile
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