Alliteration
The stress of beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
The fire crackled and ___ over the logs in the furnace.
What is popped?
A key word used to compare two dissimilar things.
What is 'like'?
A strong suggestion that two unlike things are the same.
What is (the meaning of) a metaphor?
Giving human traits to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
Greta grabbed her greedy sister's grubby hands from grazing the grapes in the grocery store.
What is gr?
Lilly let the door ___ behind her as she stomped out of the room.
What is slam?
This word is often repeated when comparing two unlike things.
What is "as"?
A word with the same root as metaphor which means "a profound change in form, character, or structure" usually associated with butterflies.
What is "metamorphosis"?
The root word that gives a clue about human characteristics.
What is person?
David's dog, Davey dug a deep ditch.
What is d?
The class knew better than to ___ out a sound during their final exam.
What is eek?
What two things are being compared with simile in this sentence?
Like sand through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives.
What are sand and days?
This poem is set is on water and uses dreams as a metaphor.
What is "Row (Row Row) Your Boat"?
The number of letters in this word.
What is fifteen (15)?
Sylvia eats cherry chutney before church every week.
What is ch?
Sammie thought he heard a ____ from the fish tank.
What is gurgle?
The line where the poet uses simile to highlight the color of Mary's lamb.
What is "it's fleece was white as snow"?
The original language where the word 'metaphor' is taken from.
What is Greek?
Name three nursery rhyme poems that include this figurative language tool.
What are "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "Hey, Diddle Diddle" and "I'm A Little Teapot"?
Formidable foe Pheobe phoned her fabulous phonics professor Mr. Phillips.
What is ph?
How many times this letter is repeated in the spelling of this sound device name.
What is four (4)?
This nighttime nursery rhyme uses 'like' to form a simile.
What is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"?
'Meta' means this in English.
What is 'to transfer'?
A more challenging thing to use personification with than non-living objects.
What is an animal?