Famous Words
Name the literary device found in the following famous quote:
"How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night"
-Edgar Allan Poe
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the term we discussed today, defined as “A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect.”
What is an oxymoron?
Name the literary device in the following lines of poetry:
"O my Love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Love is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune."
- "A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns
What is a simile?
Name the rhyme scheme in the following poetry:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date."
-"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
Shakespeare
Name the literary device in the following lyrics:
“The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside”
-"Let it Go"
Idina Menzel
What is personification or simile?
Name the literary device found in the following famous quote:
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
-Muhammad Ali
What is a simile?
Name the term we discussed in class: "Vivid description that appeals to a readers’ senses to create an image or idea in their head.”
What is imagery?
Name the literary deceive in the following lines of poetry:
"I Saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky:
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies’ skirts across the grass
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!"
-"The Wind
Robert Louis Stevenson
What is personification?
Name the rhyme scheme in the following poetry:
"The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead."
-"In A Disused Graveyard"
Robert Frost
What is ABBA?
Name the literary device in the following lyrics:
“I was lightning
before the thunder.”
-"Thunder"
Imagine Dragons
What is a metaphor?
Name the literary device found in the following famous quote:
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me."
-Emily Dickinson
What is personification?
Identify the oxymoron in the following lines of poetry:
“All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”
-"Easter 1916"William Butler Yeats
What is "a terrible beauty"
Name the literary device in the following poetry:
“Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang and clash and roar!”
-"The Bells"
Edgar Allen Poe
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the rhyme scheme of the following poetry:
"Down the road, someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,
Man's heart expands to tinker with his car
For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar"
-"Sunday Morning"
Louis MacNeice
What is AABB?
Name the literary device in the following lyrics:
“And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.”
-What a Wonderful World"
Louis Armstrong
What is alliteration?
Name the literary device found in the following famous quote:
“You’re killing me smalls."
-The Sandlot (1993)
What is hyperbole?
Name the literary device we talked about in class that is included in this poem.
"Brighter than a silver spoon,
Just as crazy as a loon.
Softer than a lullaby,
Deeper than the midnight sky,
My sweet potato pie."
-James Taylor
What is imagery?
Name the literary device in the poetry:
"Closed my lids, and kept them close,
And the balls like pulses beat;
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet"
-"The Raven"
Edgar Allen Poe
What is imagery?
Name the rhyme scheme of the following poetry:
"If a poem could cost a dime
I will spend my ink and spend my time
Making the perfect rhyme"
-"A Poem With The Perfect Rhyme"
Lovina Sylvia Chidi
What is AAA?
Name the literary device in the following lyrics:
“And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence”
-"The sounds of silence"
Simon and Garfunkel
What is an oxymoron?
Name the literary device found in the following famous quote:
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is alliteration?
Name the term we discussed in class that is in the following lines of poetry:
"The shackles of love straiten’d him
His honour rooted in dishonour stood
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true"
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What is an oxymoron?
Name the literary device in the following poetry:
“But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
-Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
What is a metaphor?
Name the rhyme scheme in the following poetry:
" My friend, I met you on an iron-gray day.
Winter-like smoke blew our landscape away.
Quick as a yellow finch, time seemed to be
Too fragile for its own capacity."
-"An Iron Gray Day"
Sandra Fowler
What is AABB?
Name the literary device in the following lyrics:
“Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight.”
-"A thousand Miles"
Vanessa Carlton
What is hyperbole?