Literary Devices Definitions
What is a sound word called?
Onomatopoeia
What is the literary device?
"Slip the surly bonds of Earth
Alliteration
What is a poem's paragraph called?
A stanza
What was "Seal" about
A seal swimming
What is the first step in analyzing a poem
Read the Title
What is it called when you repeat the beginning sound of a word?
Alliteration
What Figurative Language is this?
"Kakow! The thunder rumbled."
Onomatopoeia
How are stanza's separated on the page?
By a space
What was "Two Roads Diverged in a Wood" about
Taking the least worn path
What is the second step for analyzing a poem?
Read the title
What is it called when you compare something using like or as?
Simile
What figurative language is this?
"The grocery cart ran away from me."
Personification
What are you supposed to do at the end of lines?
put a dot on them.
What was "I wondered lonely as a cloud" about?
A cloud overlooking daffodils
What's the third step in analyzing a poem?
Paraphrase/Summarize
What is it called when you compare something and don't use like or as?
Metaphor
What Literary Device is this?
"You must be swift as the coursing river."
Simile
What is it called when you use the alphabet to examine rhyme patterns
Rhyme scheme
What was "The Rider" about
Outriding loneliness
What's the fourth step in analyzing a poem
Connotations: POV, Rhyme Scheme, and Literary Devices
What is it called when you exaggerate something?
Hyperbole
What is this literary device?
"He called up to her window like Romeo."
Allusion
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
It's easy to fight
when everything's right
and youre mad with the thrill
and the glory
A, A, B, C
What was "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" about?
Rivers important to African Americans.
What is Mrs. Dove's favorite color?
Yellow