Sound Devices
A sound device where words sound similar.
"Cat" and "Hat"
What is Rhyme?
Who or What the text is mainly about.
What is central idea? or What is main idea?
The deeper message or lesson about life that an author conveys through storytelling.
What is theme?
A girl who stands as tribute for Prim.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
"The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed,"
This type of figurative language is called this.
What is simile?
A group of words together like a paragraph but found in poetry.
What is a stanza?
A sound device where words are repeated together for emphasis.
"we loved with a love that was more than love"
What is repetition?
Logos is an appeal to this type of thinking.
What is logic? or
What is logical thinking?
A situation that the audience is aware of that a character is not aware of.
What is dramatic irony?
The boy who flew too close to the sun.
Who is Icarus?
"I think the sun is a flower."
This type of figurative language is called this.
What is metaphor?
This Japanese poem has 3 lines. 5-7-5 syllables in each line.
What is a haiku?
What is onomatopoeia?
The reason an author is writer. Usually, to persuade, entertain, or inform.
What is author's purpose?
The text structure most commonly used in fiction writing is called this, Latin for "In the order of time"
What is chronological?
This greedy character who boldly claimed that, "A Thneed's a fine something that all people need."
Who is the Once-ler?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
This type of figurative language is called this.
What is personificiation?
This Shakespearean type of poem that has 14 lines.
The rhyme scheme is: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
What is (English) sonnet?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. "The angels, not half so happy in heaven,"
What is Alliteration?
This genre of non-fiction, written by an author who tells their own story about their life.
What is autobiography?
An indication or warning of something to come in a story. "You'll put a curse on us all!"
What is foreshadowing?
He slayed the minotaur.
Who is Theseus?
"Then they closed the door and heard the gigantic sound of rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever"
This kind of exaggeration is called this.
What is hyperbole?
A pair of consecutive lines in poetry that rhyme.
"In her sepulcher there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea."
What is a couplet?
Patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables in poetry that creates a specific rhythm. One example sounds like a heart beating.
Double points for knowing the name of the heart beat rhythm.
What is meter?
(Bonus: What is Iambic pentameter?)
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. (also a term in civics.)
What is propaganda?
The emotional aura that a work of fiction evokes in a reader. Stephen King, for example, would want you to be frightened.
What is mood?
This character fought a corrupt government who tried to obtain complete equality among all people.
Who is Harrison Bergeron?
A type of figurative language where someone says the exact opposite of what they really mean.
What is verbal irony?
The rhyme scheme of this poem could be identified as this pattern of letters.
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.
What is ABAA?