Name That Literary Device!
Literary Terms
Types of Poetry
Stress and Meter
More Literary Terms
100
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry
What is a hyperbole?
100
An overstatement
What is a hyperbole?
100
Poetry that tells a story
What is narrative poetry?
100
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is an iamb?
100
A comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
What is an allusion?
200
The repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in the words.
What is assonance?
200
Poetry that expresses the feelings of the speaker.
What is lyric poetry?
200
A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a trochee?
200
Giving non-human objects human-like characteristics.
What is personification?
300
'Hope' is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all—
What is a metaphor?
300
Sound words. BUZZ!!!!!!
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Poetry that is spoken by one person to themselves or another person. This poetry is often in plays.
What is dramatic poetry?
300
Two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.
What is an anapest?
300
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
400
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count Five mountain ranges one behind the other Under the sunset far into Vermont. And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
What is onomatopoeia OR imagery?
400
A comparison that does not use like or as
What is a simile?
400
Jack and Jill Went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown...
What is narrative poetry?
400
One stressed followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is a dactyl?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the words.
What is consonance?
500
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, of someone gently rapping, rapping and my chamber door.
What is internal rhyme or alliteration?
500
A reference to another literary work
What is an allusion?
500
To be or not to be? That is the question- Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them?
What is dramatic poetry?
500
Shakespeare wrote in this metrical form.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A discrepancy between expectation and reality
What is irony?
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