Examples
"Slam!"
What is onomatopoeia?
An over-exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Simile or metaphor?
"Life is like a flowing river"
What is simile?
They are the three PRIMARY devices found in the following sentence:
"The ocean 'waved' to me in an eerily eager manner"
What are personification, pun, and assonance?
"The ragged ranger ripped through the rocky racecourse"
What is alliteration?
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
What is oxymoron?
Rhyme or personification?
"Happiness is surely best/
When one can have a peaceful rest"
What is rhyme?
"The red apple crunched with each bite, tasting of an autumn harvest"
What is imagery?
By using descriptive language (appeals to the senses), a clear picture is painted.
What is imagery?
Alliteration AND metaphor or Repetition AND simile?
"Hope is a brilliant brightness"
What are alliteration and metaphor?
"I looked at the clouds. I looked at the ground. I looked at him. Then I knew"
What is repetition?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
Daily Double: Iambic or trochaic?
"GOLDen SUNlight FELL on HIM"
What is trochaic?
Big, large, massive, and enormous could all be chosen to describe something - and that choice is an example of this.
What is diction?
The term for a meaning of a word as it is literally defined.
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The term for how words can be more positive or more negative, depending on the implications of the word.
What are denotation and connotation?
Assonance or alliteration?
"Scary hair over there"
What is assonance?