Lit Devices
As they sat on the soft, sugary sand beach waiting for the sunset, the sinking sun shimmered on the water
What is alliteration?
The tone of Claude McKay's "The Tropics in New York."
What is longing or homesick?
This type of poem is typically about nature and follows following format:
5 syllables in the first line
7 syllables in the second line
5 syllables in the third line
What is a haiku?
Ms. McClure's favorite color.
What is purple?
Ms. Miller's son's name.
What is Brody?
Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.
What is personification?
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard; (5)
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
What is cheerful?
The rhyme scheme of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost:
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is AA BB CC DD?
The name of Ms. McClure's cat.
What is Zoie?
The number of pets Ms. Miller has.
What is two?
You can’t open your new scissors because you don’t have any scissors to cut through the plastic.
What is irony?
The tone of "Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden.
What is sad and/or depressing?
This type of poem is 14 lines long, divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
What is a sonnet?
Ms. McClure's first teaching job in Delaware.
What is Millsboro Middle School?
She is related to this teacher at Sussex Central High School.
Who is Shane Miller?
The sweet fragrance of honeysuckle always reminded Jenny of her mother’s perfume.
What is imagery?
"Chae ...wasn't the quarrelsome kind except when roused, so he was well-liked, though folk laughed at him. But God knows, who is it they don't laugh at?"
What is conversational, informal, or friendly?
A Japanese poetic form that focuses on work or love with a comedic twist. It is a four-line poem with the following syllables per line:
Line 1: 7 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllable
Line 3: 7 syllables
Line 4: 5 syllables
What is a Dodoitsu?
Number of years Ms. McClure's been a teacher.
What is eight?
Ms. Miller's hometown.
What is Wilmington, Delaware?
It's so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk.
What is hyperbole?
I am! Yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me, like a memory lost.
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish, an oblivious host,
Shadows of life, whose very soul is lost.
And yet I am—I live—though I am toss'd
What is melancholy or sad?
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all…."
The words "soul" and "all" are examples of this type of rhyme.
What is near rhyme?
Ms. McClure's zodiac sign.
What is Aquarius?
Number of years Ms. Miller taught elementary school.
What is 14?