What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A simile compares two things using 'like' or 'as.' Metaphors compare two things without using 'like' or 'as.'
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What is an onomatopoeia?
A word that is also a sound
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Who wrote the poem "The Raven"?
What is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
What is the definition of mood?
The reader's emotions about what they read
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What is Ms. Thompson's first name?
Megan
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What figurative language device is being used in the following sentence?
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream.
Personification
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What figurative language device is being used?
I am so hungry I could eat a whole elephant.
Hyperbole
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Where does the speaker think the bird is from?
What is the shores of hell?
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What is tone?
The author's attitude towards the subject
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Name all three assistant principals
Kearns, Garcia, Jackson
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What figurative language device is being used?
The cat in the hat sat on a mat.
What is alliteration? (assonance)
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What figurative language device is being used in the following:
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
Personification (alliteration)
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What figurative language device is being used?
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary."
Alliteration
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What is diction and why is it important?
The author's word choice. It sets up the tone and mood. It creates connotation.
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Other than English, what other class does Ms. Thompson teach?
What is yearbook?
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What is the definition of imagery?
the author's use of words and sensory detail to create a mental image in the reader's mind.
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What figurative language device is being used? What is being compared?
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
Hope to a bird. Metaphor
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What two figurative language devices are being used?
"Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer;
alliteration and personfication
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What is the tone of the following lines:
There are some millionaires
With money they can’t use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They’ve got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
Answers will vary.
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What is Alabama's catchphrase?
Roll Tide
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Read the following lines from Langston Hughes:
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
What figurative device is being used? What is the author saying about hope deferred?
Simile. He is saying that when hope is put off it rots and withers away. He things hope deferred is a negative thing.
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Create an example of a metaphor that contains alliteration.
Answers will vary.
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At the end of the poem, how does the speaker feel about the Raven?
What does he mean when he says, "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door."
Answers will vary
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what is the tone in following lines?
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Hopeful, discontent, optimistic, etc.
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Does Ms. Thompson have any siblings? How old is he, she, or they?