Devices 1
Examples 1
Devices 2
Examples 2
What am I
100

Words that sound alike. 

What is rhyme?

100

'You can't be serious'

What is a rhetorical question?

100

Uses the senses to create a word picture. 

What is Imagery?

100

Home is my safety blanket. 

What is a Metaphor?

100

But this isn’t about style it’s about attitudes (A)

It’s about people who formulate ill-informed views (A)

Who switch on the TV and then suddenly (B)

Out of the blue they know all about me (B)

What is Rhyme Scheme? 

200

A group of lines. 

What is a stanza?

200

I could sleep for an eternity. 

What is Hyperbole?

200

An over-exaggeration. 

What is Hyperbole?

200

The scorpion is as black as soot, 

He dearly loves to bite. 

What is a Simile?

200

So why do his questions feel like an attack? 

What is a Rhetorical Question? 

300

The same beginning word sound over and over. 

What is alliteration?

300
'How cheerfully he seems to grin,

how neatly he spreads his claws, 

And welcomes little fishes in,

with gently smiling jaws.  


What is Tone?

300

Gives human qualities to animals, objects or ideas. 

What is Personification?

300

Crashing and rumbling waves against the rocks. 

What is Onomatopoeia? 

300

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary. 

What is Internal Rhyme? 

400

An indirect reference. 

What is Allusion?

400

Each student tries their best. 

Never give up. 

Great fun. 

Like a chore but not a bore. 

Is the best subject in school. 

So important for life learning. 

How many books do I get to read. 

What is Acrostic? 

400

The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. 

What is Rhyme Scheme?

400

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep. 

What is Repetition?

400

While I nodded, nearly napping, 

suddenly, there came a tapping. 

What is Alliteration?

500

A phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meaning of the words. 

What is an Idiom?

500

I'm the moon. 

She's the sun. 

She gives me light,

On the darkest night. 

What is Symbolism?

500

The feeling that a poem creates in a reader. 

What is Mood?

500

You are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. 

What is Allusion? 

500

Her house, the one whose 

Porch light burned yellow, 

Night and day, in any weather. 

A dog barked at me, until 

She came out, pulling at her gloves, 

Face bright with rouge. 

What is Imagery?