"And all those things I didn't say
Wrecking balls inside my brain"
What is a METAPHOR in "Fight Song"
100
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd advertise -- you know!
What is "Im nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
100
"Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No."
-Macbeth
What is HYPERBOLE?
100
"Conscience is a man’s compass.” – Vincent Van Gogh
What is METAPHOR
200
The wind whispered through the pines.
What is an example of PERSONIFICATION?
200
"Do you ever feel, feel so paper-thin?
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in"
What is IMAGERY in "Firework"?
200
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
What is "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
200
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
-Romeo and Juliet
What is ALLITERATION?
200
"Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn’t she?"
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
The bees buzzed throughout the garden.
What is an example of ONOMATOPEIA?
300
"I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper"
What is SIMILIE in "Skyscraper"
300
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
What is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
300
"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?"
-Hamlet
What is a METAPHOR?
300
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” – Albert Einstein
What is a METAPHOR?
400
Leaving you is such sweet sorrow...
What is an example of OXYMORON?
400
"Same old empty feeling in your heart..."
What is HYPERBOLE in "Let Her Go"
400
The caged bird sings with
A fearful trill of things unknown
But longed for still and his
Tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom
What is "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou
400
“I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him. So, again, good night.
I must be CRUEL, only to be KIND:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
One word more, good lady.”
-Hamlet
What is OXYMORON?
400
"— no word I can find is satisfactorily descriptive — in which I seemed to see that bedroom passing through my room, LIKE A PICTURE IMPOSSIBLY PAINTED ON A RUNNING RIVER." - "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt" by Charles Dickens
What is a SIMILIE?
500
The bees buzzed throughout the garden
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun
What is an example of a SIMILIE?
500
"All I wanted was to break your walls!"
What is METAPHOR in "Wrecking Ball"
500
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
What is "A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
500
“When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.”
-Romeo and Juliet
What is PERSONIFICATION?
500
“...the shackles of love straiten’d him
His honour rooted in dishonoured stood
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true”
"Lancelot and Elaine" by Alfred Lord Tennyson