Column 1
"Claire, close your cluttered closet."
What is alliteration?
"My head is pounding like a drum."
What is imagery?
"Back window's cracked, / Kitchen floor squeaks"
- "Madam and The Rent Man" by Langston Hughes
What is onomatopoeia?
"I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
"I died of embarrassment."
What is hyperbole?
"But O heart! heart! heart!"
- "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
What is repetition?
"Go and gather the green leaves on the grass."
What is alliteration?
"Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
- "Dreams" by Langston Hughes
What is metaphor?
"The girl clip-clops away"
What is onomatopoeia?
"The siren turned into a whisper as it ended."
What is imagery?
"A boy told me / if he roller-skated fast enough / his loneliness couldn't catch up to him"
- "The Rider" by Naomi Shihab Nye
What is personification?
"Joyful, joyful, joyful, / as only dogs know how to be happy"
- "A Dog Has Died" by Pablo Neruda
What is repetition?
"'How small and weak you look,' / said the ax to the blade. / 'You will never be able to do / those deeds for which I'm made.'"
- "The Blade and The Ax" by Abimbola T. Alabi
What is personification?
"He is sunshine and laughter / or a cloud that will weep."
What is metaphor?
"Before you die / whatever else you leave undone -- / ride a wild horse / into the sun."
- "Ride a Wild Horse" by Hannah Kahn
What is rhyme?
"The rent man knocked. / He said, Howdy-do? / I said, What / Can I do for you?"
- "Madam and The Rent Man" by Langston Hughes
"I know a funny little man, / As quiet as a mouse,"
- "Mr. Nobody" by Anonymous
What is simile?
"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night."
- "The Tyger" by William Blake
What is rhythm?
"Burning, singing in the sunshine."
- "Hiawatha's Departure" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is rhythm?
"What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?"
- "Harlem" by Langston Hughes