What is the literary device?
What is the literary device? 2
Meaning of...
Meaning of... 2
Identify the device
100
When comparing two things using "like" or "as"

Simile

100

When words or phrases are repeated

Repetition
100

Words that have the same (or very similar) ending sound 

A. Rhyme

B. Rhyme scheme

C. Stanza

A. Rhyme

100

The pattern in which rhyming sounds are organised 

A. Lines

B. Rhyming couplets

C. Rhyme scheme

C. Rhyme scheme

100

Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so

A. Simile 

B. Onomatopoeia

C. Metaphor

B. Onomatopoeia

200

When giving an inanimate object human-like characteristics/qualities

Personification

200

The time and place of a story/poem

Setting

200

The topic of a poem/text or what the poem/text is about

A. Subject

B. Persona

C. Mood

D. Theme

A. Subject

200

When the speaker takes on the voice of someone else

A. Speaker

B. Theme

C. Subject

D. Persona

D. Persona

200

My life is a dream.

A. Metaphor

B. Personification

C. Simile

A. Metaphor

300

When comparing two things without using "like" or "as", saying one thing is something when it is not

Metaphor

300

The "paragraph" of a poem

Stanza

300

The voice of the poem

A. Subject

B. Speaker

C. Persona

D. Theme

B. Speaker

300

The underlying message/s of the text/poem/play

A. Theme

B. Subject

C. Persona

D. Mood and Tone

A. Theme

300

This house is as clean as a whistle.

A. Simile

B. Metaphor

C. Rhyme

A. Simile

400

Words that mimic sounds (e.g. clang, click, buzz, chirp)

Onomatopoeia

400

The individual "sentences" in a stanza in a poem

Lines

400

Words or phrases used that help the reader create certain images 

Imagery

400

The reader's feelings/reaction to a text/poem conveyed by the poet/author

A. Theme

B. Rhyme scheme

C. Mood

D. Tone

C. Mood

400

The classroom was a zoo.

Metaphor

500

The repetition of the first letter of a number of words close together in a line or series of lines 

Alliteration

500

The repetition of the VOWEL sound in a number of words close together in a line or series of lines

Assonance

500

What is the difference between the TONE and MOOD?

The tone describes the poet/author's attitude towards the poem/text, while the mood describes the reader's feelings/reaction to the poem/text

500

This describes a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound in a poem - the "beat."

Rhythm
500

The wind whispered secrets to the trees.

Personification
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