Sound Devices
The repetition of the same or similar consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts or attitudes.
What is Personification?
Do not go gentle into that good night
What is death or dying?
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is The Garden of Eden?
The sound of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of like or as.
What is Metaphor?
You either make a way or stay sobbin', the shiny apple
Is bruised but sweet...
What is NYC?
"Are we poor, Atticus?"
Atticus nodded. "We are indeed."
Jem's nose wrinkled. "Are we as poor as the Cunninghams?"
"Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest."
What is the stock market crash or Great Depression?
What type of sound device is used in the following lines?
We passed the Fields of Grazing Grain--
We passed the Setting Sun--
What is Alliteration?
A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect.
What is Hyperbole?
"When the fist bird sings and the first bud opes" (opens)
What is Spring?
"Why are you always such a Scrooge? It doesn't cost much, and it'll be fun!"
What is A Christmas Carol?
What type of sound device is used in the following sentence?
The window shattered with a rattle and a boom!
What is Onomatopoeia?
What type of figurative language is used in the following lines?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun
Or fester like a sore?
What is Simile?
Angrily Sonia barked commands at her child
What is a dog?
"She's a good swimmer, but she's no Ariel."
What is The Little Mermaid?
What type of sound device is used in the following lines?
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
What is Rhyme?
What type of figurative language is used in the following line?
The flowers nodded in the wind
What is Personification?
Alex was chomping at the bit to have his turn
What is a horse?
You are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
What is Atlas?