Apples to Oranges (what's being compared?)
Laughter is the best medicine.
What is laughter and medicine? (metaphor)
A group of words together on a line of a poem
What is a line?
Two or more words sound alike because they end in the same vowel and consonant sounds
What is rhyme?
An exaggeration usually used for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
This race is going to be the death of me.
What is hyperbole?
Ogres are like onions.
What are ogres and onions? (Shrek)
A group of lines together.
What is a stanza?
When multiple words start with the same sound
What is alliteration?
An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities
What is personification?
His smile is like kryptonite to me.
What is an allusion?
“It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house."
What is a voice and bells? (simile)
The narrator of the poem
What is the speaker?
When words in the same line rhyme with one another
What is internal rhyme?
When something that has meaning in itself also represents something else
What is symbolism?
The sunflowers hung their heads.
What is personification?
“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”
What is morning and candy? (simile)
The appearance of words on a page.
When a word imitates the sound that it is describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
An expression where the literal meaning is not the actual meaning.
Bob was a gloomy person. He always found a way to rain on my parade.
What is an idiom?
“Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.”
What is time and water? (metaphor)
A specific pattern of syllables in a poem. Measured in feet.
What is meter?
Label the rhyme scheme of this verse:
"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
What is ABAA BCBCB?
A reference to something famous (such as mythology or the Bible)
What is an allusion?
Looking at all of the people milling around the market, she saw dollar signs.
What is symbolism?