What's the term?
What's the Technique?
Give an Example
Name the Difference
~Wild Card~
100

A word that sounds like the name of the word

Onomatopoeia

100

I'm literally dying

Hyperbole

100

Onomatopoeia

Ex. Bang!

100

Simile vs. metaphor

Ex. Simile uses like/as, metaphor does not
100
Words/phrases repeated in multiple lines

Repetition

200

Giving an inanimate object human characteristics

Personification

200

His blood was ice

Metaphor

200

Simile

Ex. She ran like the wind

200

End rhyme vs. internal rhyme

Ex. End rhyme is at the end of the line, internal rhyme is in the middle

200

Bouncing baby boy

Alliteration

300

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Alliteration

300

The king took off his ring

Internal rhyme

300

Personification

Ex. The trees waved at me

300

Alliteration vs. consonance

Ex. alliteration is consonant sounds at the beginning of the word, consonance is consonant sounds at the end of the word
300

The mood of a poem changes from happy to sad

Volta

400

Rhyming words in the middle of the line

Internal rhyme

400

I smacked the clock with a brick

Consonance

400

Metaphor

Ex. She was a statue

400

Tone vs. Mood

Ex. Tone is the author's attitude toward the subject, mood is how the reader is made to feel

400

Metaphor vs. personification

Ex. Metaphor is a comparison of 2 unlike things without like or as, personification is giving human characteristics to an inanimate object

500

The dramatic shift in the mood of the poem

Volta

500

Elle enters the empty elevator

Assonance

500

Consonance

Ex. The duck quacked back

500

Assonance vs. consonance

Ex. assonance is repeated vowels anywhere in the word, consonance is repeated consonance sounds at the end of the word
500

Give an example of assonance

Ex. Jack patted the cat

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