Go Figure
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
Words that have the same sound or ending sound, especially at the end of a line of poetry
What is a rhyme?
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
What is a rhyme?
The flow changes like a chameleon
Plays like a friend then stabs you like a dagger
What is simile?
A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
What is alliteration?
It's the City of Angels and constant danger
South Central L.A. can't get no stranger
Full of drama like a soap opera
What is rhyme?
What is allusion?
What is simile?
A highly exaggerated statement made for effect
What is a hyperbole?
"He was so old that when he ordered a three-minute egg, they asked for the money up front.”
What is a hyperbole?
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
Blacker than the night time sky of Bed-Stuy in July
What is assonance?
To the young youth, you wanna get gunned? Shoot!
Blaow! How you like me now?
What is alliteration (form on consonance)?
What is assonance?
What is rhyme?
What is onomatopoeia?
Giving humanlike qualities to non-human things
What is personification?
There is something subversive about this garden of Serena’s. . . . . It breathes, in the warmth, breathing itself in.
What is personification?
The repetition of consonant sounds, not only at the beginning of words
What is consonance?
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
What is consonance?
So much on my mind that I can't recline
Blastin' holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
What is alliteration?
What is assonance?
What is rhyme?
What is personification?
A figurative statement that contradicts itself
What is an oxymoron?
"Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!"
A word that is made to sound like what it is in real life
Onomatopoeia
They knew that the principal was coming because they heard the jingle of his keys
Onomatopoeia
It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I'm in a New York State of Mind
What is simile?
What is alliteration?
What is rhyme?
What is metaphor?
What is metaphor?
What is allusion?