What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
The Tricky 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 bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.

What is hyperbole? 

(Will also accept metaphor). 

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
The book was a weight, it was so heavy.
What is metaphor?
200

A Japanese poem that has three lines and 17 total syllables. 

What is haiku?

300
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
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
Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown can make thunder.
What is onomatopoeia?
300

Sunshine on the waves

Easing my troubles away

Always crashing on the shore

What is an acrostic poem?

400

The trees were as tall as skyscrapers!

What is hyperbole?

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

A poem that has 5 lines and uses a combination of nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe the poem's topic. 

What is a cinquain poem?

500

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

(Hint:This one is new, it is like alliteration but with the similar sounds at the ends of the words instead of the beginning.)

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

Like King Arthur, he ruled with strength and wisdom.

(Hint) When you reference something, but don't explain what it is. Another examples is "red liquid" from a poem we have read together.

What is allusion?

500

A poem that takes on the shape of the thing that it is describing. 

What is concrete or shape poetry?

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