Definitions
What is a metaphor?
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What is onomatopoeia?
Also, this specific example is Aby's fault.
"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What is a metaphor?
Give me an example of a metaphor.
That is correct!
This compares 2 different things by saying that one has a quality like something else.
What is a simile?
My alarm clock screeched for me to get up.
What is personification?
"She speaks! O, speak again, bright angel!
For thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What is a simile?
Give me an example of an onomatopoeia.
Sure, that'll work.
This is giving something that is not human human-like qualities.
What is personification?
What is imagery?
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for the crows to pick at." William Shakespeare's Othello
What is an idiom?
Pick a student in this class and say a simile about them.
Sure, why not.
This is repeating a theme, sentence, or word multiple times for effect.
What is repetition?
Exempting Mr. Smith's final was nice, but the Christmas present he gave us was the icing on the cake.
What is an idiom?
"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality." - Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for Death
What is personification?
Provide me an example of an oxymoron.
This is a phrase that contains 2 opposite words that can provide a stronger meaning to one of them.
What is an oxymoron?
What is alliteration?
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration." - Frank Herbert, Dune
What is a hyperbole?
Provide me an example of personification.
Sure enough.