English Techniques
"The wind whispered through the dark trees" is an example of this technique.
What is personification?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What is an echo?
Mary’s father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono, and...
Who is Mary?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an egg?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" heavily uses this sound technique.
What is alliteration?
The more of this there is, the less you see.
What is darkness?
A rooster lays an egg on the peak of a slanted roof. Which way does the egg roll?
What is nowhere? (Roosters don't lay eggs).
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even.
What is Seven? (Take away the 'S').
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
I have keys but no doors, space but no room. You can enter but you can’t go inside.
What is a keyboard?
You see a boat filled with people. It hasn't sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
What is "They were all married"?
What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
What is the word "incorrectly"?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences (e.g., "I came, I saw, I conquered").
What is anaphora?
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
What is silence?
A man looking at a photo says, "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son." Who is in the photo?
Who is his son?
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not.
What is the word "ton" (not)?
The literary technique where the audience knows something significant that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me.
What is fire?
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left?
What is nine?
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
What is the letter "M"?