What is this device?
The pretty proud princess paid for the purse with pounds.
What is alliteration?
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound it names.
What is onomatopoeia?
The bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.
What is hyperbole? and What is a metaphor?
The giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits.
What is personification?
She is like the sun so fair.
What is a simile?
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
We will not be afraid; we will not be intimidated,for we are stronger than we look. We will never surrender.
What is anaphora?
The emotional effect of a poem or a story, how the audience or readers feel as they read a poem or a story.
What is the mood?
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
The monkey screamed at me; he got out of his car and screamed at me!
What is funny or humourous?
The repetition of beginning sound in at least two or more neighboring words words.
What is alliteration?
He came in first and won the gold medal, and even made it to state and regional, but he did not win any medals.
What is polysyndeton?
The comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other. Ex. A hat is to the head as a shoe is to the foot.
What is an analogy?
She is a daughter, a teacher, a wife, a mother, a friend.
What is asyndeton?
Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.
What is gloomy, depressing, or dreadful?
Hints that tell what may happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
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.
What is personification?
Words and phrases that help the reader visualize, or imagine what is happening, in literature, or language that appeals to the senses or paints vivid mental pictures.
What is imagery?
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
What is assonance?
The day was long and hard, but I was the victor!
What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?
The repetition of sounds WITHIN a word, creating lines that ALMOST rhyme...but not quite.
What is assonance?
Like King Arthur, he ruled with strength and wisdom.
What is allusion?
When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.
What is symbolism?