Devices 1
Words that sound alike.
What is rhyme?
'You can't be serious'
What is a rhetorical question?
Uses the senses to create a word picture.
What is Imagery?
Home is my safety blanket.
What is a Metaphor?
But this isn’t about style it’s about attitudes (A)
It’s about people who formulate ill-informed views (A)
Who switch on the TV and then suddenly (B)
Out of the blue they know all about me (B)
What is Rhyme Scheme?
A group of lines.
What is a stanza?
I could sleep for an eternity.
What is Hyperbole?
An over-exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
The scorpion is as black as soot,
He dearly loves to bite.
What is a Simile?
So why do his questions feel like an attack?
What is a Rhetorical Question?
The same beginning word sound over and over.
What is alliteration?
how neatly he spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
with gently smiling jaws.
What is Tone?
Gives human qualities to animals, objects or ideas.
What is Personification?
Crashing and rumbling waves against the rocks.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.
What is Internal Rhyme?
An indirect reference.
What is Allusion?
Each student tries their best.
Never give up.
Great fun.
Like a chore but not a bore.
Is the best subject in school.
So important for life learning.
How many books do I get to read.
What is Acrostic?
The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
What is Repetition?
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly, there came a tapping.
What is Alliteration?
A phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meaning of the words.
What is an Idiom?
I'm the moon.
She's the sun.
She gives me light,
On the darkest night.
What is Symbolism?
The feeling that a poem creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
You are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
What is Allusion?
Her house, the one whose
Porch light burned yellow,
Night and day, in any weather.
A dog barked at me, until
She came out, pulling at her gloves,
Face bright with rouge.
What is Imagery?