Terms / Definitions
A simile.
What compares two things while using "like" or "as."
The three sound devices terms.
What is rhythm, rhyme, and repetition?
Comparing without using "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
"I am water
soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away"
What is metaphor?
Refreshes my skin.
The stars shine so bright,
Causing me to grin.
Repetition
What is repeating certain words or phrases over and over?
Use claps to help find this.
What is rhythm?
Extreme exaggerated statement or sarcasm.
What is hyperbole?
Find what sound device this is:
I'm car sick.
Open a window.
I'm car sick.
Take this pill.
I'm car sick.
Rest your eyes.
What is repetition?
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them Sam I am.
I do not like them in a boat.
I do not like them with a goat.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
What is AABBCC?
Internal rhyme.
What is a rhyme at the end of the words within the poems?
Find the syllables:
This class is the best!
What is five syllables?
Words that make sound.
BONUS for spelling it correctly.
What is onomatopoeia?
If you always try your best
Then you'll never have to wonder
About what you could have done
If you'd summoned all your thunder
And if your best
Was not as good
As you hoped it would be,
You still could say,
"I gave today
All that I had in me."
What is idiom?
I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
What is aabb?
Idiom.
What is meaning something different from what literally said?
Find the external rhyme:
I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.
I'm going blind in my right eye.
What is mumps and bumps, dry and eye?
Words that use exaggerated.
What is personification, hyperbole, and idiom.
If my heart could speak,
it would say to you,
"I will hold you
in my arms
forever."
What is personification?
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece as white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
What is ABCB.
Alliteration.
What is a rhyme or repeating of the same letter at the beginning of words?
Martin Luther King uses this in his "I have a dream" speech.
What is repetition?
Words dealing with sounds.
What is onomatopoeia and alliteration?
Bright streaks whiz through the sky.
Thunk! Whoosh!
Brightly colored explosions sizzle and
Pop, pop, pop.
What is onomatopoeia?
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'ver vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a croud,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
What is ABABCC?