VOCABULARY
What literary term can be defined as comparing two things using "like or as"?
What is simile?
When you faltered, I slowly wilted.
CONSONANCE / L
What type of rhyme is this?
"Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night"
What is true rhyme?
What was Emily Dickinson's purpose in writing "Hope is the thing with feathers"?
For hope and reassurance for her series of unfortunate events.
What literary term can be defined as giving human qualities to things that are non-human?
What is personification?
Funny fragile Frank came fully prepared for French class today.
ALLITERATION / F
Where do you see rhyme?
"Hope is the thing with feathers-
That perches in the soul-
And sings the tune without the words-
And never stops-at all-
Soul/All
In "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, the mother was explaining to her son that...
Life is full of obstacles... (Tacks, splinters, no carpet...)
What literary device is in this example?
bittersweet
Oxymoron
He claps his hands and stamps his feet.
ASSONANCE / A
What type of rhyme is this?
"Give this to the man,
he'll know what I mean"
What is half rhyme?
The boulder hit the group with a loud thump.
What is onomatoepoeia?
In Emily Dickinson's "The Battlefield", soldiers are being compared to...
Flakes, Stars, Petals from a rose
What literary term can be defined as the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text?
What is consonance?
Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Where do you see rhyme?
"A phonograph, a radio, a car and a Frigidaire
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content,
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was war, he went."
Frigidaire/Year
Content/Went
We love Mondays. We love Tuesdays. We love Wednesdays. We love Thursdays.. We love every day of the week!
What is anaphora?
They are nothing but "additions" to the bureau of statistics.
They are always constantly being watched.
The word "unknown" suggests that no one knows anything about the citizen, yet the government knows everything.
What literary term can be defined as when the reader knows essential information that the main characters do not?
What is dramatic irony?
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks.
ASSONANCE / EE
What type of rhyme is this?
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"
What is internal rhyme?
In, "The Unknown Citizen" by W. H. Auden, the author expresses his criticisms on _________.
Conformity, Inhumanity, Government surveillance and oppression, Lack of individuality