Name that device
The baby was like an Octopus
What is a simile?
The woman was as angry as a cat on a hot tin roof
Simile
The baby was an octopus, grabbing at all the thing on the shelf.
It was like the baby had 8 arms.
I felt like a kettle, boiling over with rage.
What is a simile?
Name this device - She sells sea shells, by the sea shore
Alliteration
The Giant's steps were thunder
What is a metaphor?
He was as mad as a hatter
Simile
The Giant's steps were thunder.
The steps were very loud
Sam I am, I will not eat green eggs and ham.
What is rhyme?
Does this rhyme - Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you.
Yes
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is Alliteration?
The boy was the wind as he ran down the street.
Metaphor
The pillow was a cloud.
Very soft.
Peter Parker, Doctor doom, Sam Smith
What is Alliteration?
Does this rhyme - To be or not to be, that is the question.
No
The rain in spain falls mainly in the plain.
What is Rhyme?
My heart was a bomb waiting to exploded because I liked her.
metaphor
The class was a 3 ring circus
It was crazy, noisey, out of control.
The people were a cloud of wasps, devouring all the food.
What is a metaphor?
Does this rhyme? The rain in spain falls in the plain.
Yes
The window winked at me from it's bright blue frame.
What is personification?
The boy ran away with his dog.
Neither.
I feel like a limp dishrag.
I feel sick, run down, tired
The lonely chair sat in the room longing for the days when it was used.
What is Personification?
This is the term for when the weather matches the mood of the poem.
What is pathetic fallacy?