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 sibilance?

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 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 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

It's raining cats and dogs.

What is metaphor?

200

The emotional effect of a poem or a story.

What is the mood?

300
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
300

She put her foot in the bucket and ended up on the floor with fish on her face.

What is funny or humourous?

300

The repetition of beginning sound in at least 2 or more words.

What is alliteration?

300

Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown can make thunder.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.

What is symbolism?

400

The trees were as tall as skyscrapers!

What is hyperbole?
(Also a simile)

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.

What is personification?


400

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

What is imagery?

500
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
What is assonance?
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

Should I compare thee to a summers day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate. 

(Meter) 

What is iambic pentameter? 

500

A poem with fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter.

Shakespeare wrote a lot of these.

What is a sonnet?

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