Old definitions
The repetition of identical consonant sounds
What is Alliteration?
You are my sunshine.
What is a metaphor?
A word designed to imitate the sound it is describing
Maggie is soft like a giant marshmallow is an example of....
What is a simile?
The rhyme scheme of the following stanza is ______
Roses are readViolets are blue
You should lead
My heart to you
What is abab?
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things using the cue words like and as
What is Simile?
Rowdy Rudy ran right at me.
What is alliteration?
A repetition of ending rhymes that creates a pattern
What is rhyme scheme?
If you say something is pretty ugly, you are using a __________
What is a paradox?
The rhyme scheme of the following cheer is ______
Two bitsFour bits
Three bits
A dollar
All for the hometeam
Stand up and holler!
What is aaabcb?
Attributing human characteristics to non-human things or abstractions
What is personification?
What is a paradox?
An obvious contradiction that somehow is true
What is Paradox?
If you say sunshine is your enemy, you are using ______
What is the rhyme scheme of the following line?
Candy the yams, spice the hams
Soggy beans and tangerines
What is internal rhyme?
What is a Metaphor?
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?
A reference and quotation that authors assume their readers will recognize from another literary work
What is allusion?
When your novel makes a reference to Noah's arc, they are using ___________
What is an allusion?
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?
An exaggeration almost too difficult to believe used for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
She was so beautiful she blinded me.
What is hyperbole?
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work
What is an anaphora?
Little lamb, who made thee? is an example of __________
What is an apostrophe?
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?