Basics
What is it called when you compare two things using “like” or “as”?
What is a "simile"?
What is rhythm?
Rhythm is a repeated pattern of movement or sound
Which figurative language appeals to the senses, like “The crisp autumn air smelled like cinnamon”?
What is "imagery"?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
What is an echo?
Identify the figurative language: “The world is a stage.”
What is a "metaphor"?
What is the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words called?
What is "rhyme"?
What is it called when the beginning consonant sounds are repeated, like “Peter Piper picked a peck”?
What is "alliteration"?
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
What is a candle?
What do you call a phrase that gives human qualities to something non-human?
Personification
Identify the rhyme scheme.
I can't see fear.
Fueled by fury.
The end is near,
But not the end to my story.
ABAC
Name the figurative language in this line: “The thunder grumbled angrily in the sky.”
What is "personification"?
I attract and repel. What am I?
What is a magnet?
What is the term for an exaggerated statement, like “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”?
What is hyperbole?
What is the term for a poem with lines that do not rhyme?
What is "free verse"?
What do we call the pattern of rhyme at the end of each line, often labeled with letters like ABAB or AABB?
What is "rhyme scheme"?
In literature, what do we call the main character who faces a conflict?
What is a protagonist?
What is it called when an object, person, or place represents a larger idea or concept beyond its literal meaning?
What is "symbolism"?
What is a rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry?
What is "internal rhyme"?
What is the term for a phrase or expression that means something different from the literal meanings of its words, like “It’s raining cats and dogs”?
What is an "idiom"?
What is the smallest prime number?
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