A type of figurative language where the writer uses extreme exaggeration for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
100
Splish splash I was takin' a bath. Is a great example of___________________.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Example: Walking on thin ice.
What is idiom?
100
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light!
This has a musical quality created by a pattern of beats.
What is rhythm?
100
This is the rhyme scheme for the following:
day, play, same, game, rest, test, that, bat
What is A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D?
200
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
What is rhyme?
200
In the poem Pizza the size of the sun, Jack Prulutsky uses ____________________ to exaggerate the size of the pizza.
What is hyperbole?
200
Example: "While I nodded, nearly napping..."
What is alliteration?
200
Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore uses the repetition of the same consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
200
The article "The New England Poet", the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", and the poem "Out, Out-" are all by/about this man.
Who is Robert Frost?
300
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
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This is the rhyme scheme for the poem "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
"The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead..."
What is A, B, B, A?
300
Example: "The gurgling sound of my brother slurping his soup was enough to drive me crazy."
What is imagery?
300
End rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds that come ________________________.
What is at the end of a line of poetry
300
He wrote "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Who is Shel Silverstein?
400
A direct comparison between two unlike things. NOT using like or as
What is metaphor?
400
In the poem Summer grass by Carl Sandburg this type of figurative language is used.
summer grass aches and whispers
it wants something; it calls and sings it pours out wishes to the overhead stars.
the rain hears; the rain answers; the rain is slow coming; the rain wets the face of the grass
What is personification?
400
Example: "This steak is as tough as an old leather shoe!"
What is simile?
400
Simile is a comparison between two unlike things using the words ______________________.
What is like or as?
400
I have a cat who wears a hat! This is an example of...
What is internal rhyme?
500
A comparison between two unlike things. Example: "She had a heart of stone."
What is a metaphor?
500
She is personified with the ability to speak to immigrants in the poem "The New Colossus".
What is the Statue of Liberty?
500
Example: "The rain hit the window with a soft pitterpatter."
What is onomatopoeia?
500
He was author of Tell Tale Heart. He is sick and twisted.