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Rhyme Scheme
100

The repetition of identical consonant sounds

What is Alliteration?

100

You are my sunshine.

What is a metaphor?

100

A word designed to imitate the sound it is describing

What is onomatopoeia?
100

Maggie is soft like a giant marshmallow is an example of....

What is a simile?

100

The rhyme scheme of the following stanza is ______

Roses are read

Violets are blue

You should lead

My heart to you

What is abab?

200

A direct comparison between two dissimilar things using the cue words like and as

What is Simile?

200

Rowdy Rudy ran right at me.

What is alliteration?

200

A repetition of ending rhymes that creates a pattern

What is rhyme scheme?

200

If you say something is pretty ugly, you are using a __________

What is a paradox?

200

The rhyme scheme of the following cheer is ______

Two bits

Four bits

Three bits

A dollar

All for the hometeam

Stand up and holler!

What is aaabcb?

300

Attributing human characteristics to non-human things or abstractions

What is personification?

300
Graduating college was bittersweet.

What is a paradox?

300

An obvious contradiction that somehow is true

What is Paradox?

300

If you say sunshine is your enemy, you are using ______

What is personification?
300

What is the rhyme scheme of the following line?

Candy the yams, spice the hams

Soggy beans and tangerines

What is internal rhyme?

400
A comparison between two unlike things, describing one thing as being the other without the use of clue words

What is a Metaphor?

400

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

What is internal rhyme?

400

A reference and quotation that authors assume their readers will recognize from another literary work

What is allusion?

400

When your novel makes a reference to Noah's arc, they are using ___________

What is an allusion?

400

What is the rhyme of the following lines?

'The people along the sand

All turn and look one way.

They turn their back on the land.

They look at the sea all day.


As long as it takes to pass

A ship keeps raising its hull;

The wetter ground like glass

Reflects a standing gull.

What is abab cdcd?

500

An exaggeration almost too difficult to believe used for emphasis

What is hyperbole?

500

She was so beautiful she blinded me.

What is hyperbole?

500

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work

What is an anaphora?

500

Little lamb, who made thee? is an example of __________

What is an apostrophe?

500

What is the rhyme scheme of the following lines?

She calls me tofu

Because I am soft 

and easily fall apart.

I wish I were tough

Like her, like you,

Like everyone else.


What is free verse?

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