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

What is alliteration?

She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

100

The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.

What is happy or joyful?

100

What is onomatopoeia?

A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound when the word is spoken

100

The bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.

hyperbole

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

What is a simile?

She is like the sun so fair.

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.

 metaphor

200

The emotional effect of a poem or a story.

What is the mood?

300

What is a metaphor?

Clouds are ships which sail the skies.

300
The monkey screamed at me; he got out of his car and screamed at me!
What is funny or humourous?
300
The repetition of beginning sound in atleast 2 or more words.
What is alliteration?
300

The relentless, angry wind battered the house.

pathetic fallacy

300
The comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other.
What is an analogy?
400

What is hyperbole?

The trees were as tall as skyscrapers!

400
Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.
What is sad or depressing or dreadful?
400
Hints that tell what may happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
400

Hey diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.

personification?

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

What is assonance?

"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."

500
The day was long and hard, but I was the victor!
What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?
500
The repetition of sounds WITHIN a word, creating lines that ALMOST rhyme...but not quite.
What is assonance?
500

Like King Arthur, he ruled with strength and wisdom.

allusion

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