What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
The Weird Ones
Identification
Know Your Definitions
100
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
100
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
100
A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound when the word is spoken
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The wind shrieked with fury.
What is personification?
100

The lines that make up different sections in poems. A poem paragraph

What is a Stanza

200
She is like the sun so fair.
What is a simile?
200
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
200
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
The book was a weight, it was so heavy.
What is metaphor?
200

The emotion that a reader feels while reading a poem

What is the mood?

300
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
300
Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.
What is sad or depressing or dreadful?
300

Words that are opposite, but when put together make sense

What is oxymoron

300
Peter Piper ate a pickle
What is Alliteration?
300

Words and phrases that help the reader visualize, or imagine what is happening, in literature.

What is imagery?

400
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
400

The clown threw a pie in my friend's face!

What is funny or humourous?

400

The repetition of internal or final consonant sounds.

What is consonance?

400
Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown can make thunder.
What is onomatopoeia?
400

A phrase that is contradictory, but makes sense. 

What is paradox

500

It was terribly sad... the man just passed away.

What is Euphemism 

500

It was a long competition, but I rose as the victor!

What is Pride, or victorious 

500

When the opposite of what is expected occurs. 

What is Irony

500

The float was in the shape of a boat surrounded by a moat. 

What is assonance 

500

A reference to a famous person, place or thing

What is Allusion

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