What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
The Weird Ones
Identification
Know Your Definitions
100

Stansfield sells sea shells on the sea shore.

What is alliteration?

100

The sun smiled down on Jackson as the warm breeze thawed Nolan's 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 bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.

What is hyperbole?

100
The giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits.
What is personification?
200

She is as glazed as a honeydew donut. 

What is a simile?

200

Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily as Liam stood in the dark corner. 

What is scary?

200
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200

The book was a weight, it was so heavy.

What is metaphor?

200

The emotional effect of a poem or a story on the reader.

What is the mood?

300

Students are sponges who absorb information! 

What is a metaphor?

300

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

– A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, scene 1, lines 240 – 241

Love romance 

300

luscious the little

lame balloonman

What is alliteration?

300
Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown can make thunder.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other.
What is an analogy?
400

D period is as polite as a British schoolboy in church. 

What is hyperbole? or a lie 

400

Rain fell as John stared into the gray, dreary forest.

What is sad or depressing or dreadful?

400
Hints that tell what may happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
400

The classroom came alive with laughter. 

What is personification?

400
Words and phrases that help the reader visualize, or imagine what is happening, in literature.
What is imagery?
500

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

rhyme or personification 

500

I'm Him, I'm the goat, you're trash. 

What is prideful, too much egotistical

500
The repetition of sounds WITHIN a word, creating lines that ALMOST rhyme...but not quite.
What is assonance?
500

He acted like Romeo when he saw Juliet. - not simile 

What is an allusion?

500
When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.
What is symbolism?
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