This is something that represents itself and something deeper.
What is a symbol?
100
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." This is an example of this literary element.
What is alliteration?
100
I am so hungry I could eat a horse! This is an example of this literary device.
What is hyperbole?
100
"My life is a dream." This is an example of this literary element.
What is metaphor.
200
This is the repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of paragraphs or stanzas.
What is anaphora?
200
This is a poem that lacks any rhythmic structure.
What is Free-Verse?
200
"Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
Let both sides, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors."
What is anaphora?
200
The lonely moon's reflection shone on the water. This is an example of this literary element.
What is personification?
200
This form of poetry follows a strict pattern of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet.
What is a (Elizabethan) Sonnet?
300
These are words named for the sounds they make.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
This is a reference to a famous work inside of another work.
What is an allusion?
300
The uncle's knuckles cracked on the back of the chair.
What is consonance?
300
This is the word choice of an author.
What is diction?
300
There once was a big brown cat. (A)
That liked to eat a lot of mice. (B)
He got all round and fat. (A)
Because they tasted so nice. (B)
What does the (A)(B) indicate?
What is rhyme scheme?
400
This is the rhythmic structure of a poem.
What is meter.
400
This is giving human characteristics to inhuman or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
400
"Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks." This is an example of this literary element.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
This is the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
400
"The garden was so beautiful, I imagined that this must be what Eden looked like." This is an example of this literary device.
What is allusion?
500
This is the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
500
This is a hint of what is to come.
(not in your list of words, but you should know it)
What is foreshadowing?
500
"Kate baked a great cake." This contains an example of this literary element.
What is assonance?
500
"The sail was patched with flower sacks and furled, it looked like a flag of permanent defeat," This is an example of this literary element.
What is simile?
500
"The great swells and little sloops, slipped and slopped on the dock." This contains an example of this literary device.