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Lit Devices: Definitions
Lit Devices: Examples
What Animal am I?
Reading Strategies
Miscellaneous
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A 14 line poem- English or Italian.
What is a "sonnet"?
100
Between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests; SNUG AS A GUN? What is the capitalized portion?
What is "a simile"?
100
He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age. He was specked with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny sea-lice, and underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down.
What is "a fish"?
100
When approaching a poem with archaic language, this is the first thing you do:
What is "look up the terms you don't know"?
100
This famous poem form only has 17 syllables.
What is "haiku"?
200
A rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.
What is a "slant rhyme" (or half rhyme).
200
Man and boy stood cheering by, / and HOME WE BROUGHT YOU shoulder-high. The capitalized portion is what?
What is "an inverted sentence"?
200
A narrow Fellow in the Grass / Occasionally rides-- / You may have met Him--did you not / His notice sudden is-- The grass divides as with a Comb--A spotted shaft is seen / And then it closes at your feet / and opens further on
What is "a snake"? Emily Dickinson.
200
You do this to help figure out what the subject of the poem is:
What is "paraphrase each stanza or section of the poem"
200
A ________ consists of a long story (narrative) which includes many awesome heroic actions. It is the oldest form of poetry:
What is an "epic"?
300
A rhyme in which the words look like they rhyme, but when you say them they do not.
What is an "eye rhyme" or "sight rhyme"
300
What immortal hand or eye, / Dare frame thy fearful symetry?
What is "eye rhyme" or "sight rhyme"?
300
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.
What is "an eagle"?
300
You do this to figure out how the speaker feels about the subject:
What is "add up the effect of his/her word choice (diction)"?
300
This famous singer won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year for their contribution to poetry:
Who is "Bob Dylan"?
400
A period sentence is....
What is "a sentence that begins with clauses and phrases, which then builds into the main independent clause."
400
The cold smell of potato mould, the SQUELCH and SLAP/ of SOGGY peat
What is "an alliteration"?
400
Riding and riding with your filth of hair On gluey foot or wing, forever coy, Hot from the compost and green sweet decay, Sounding your buzzer like an urchin toy— You dot all whiteness with diminutive stool, In the tight belly of the dead Burrow with hungry head And inlay maggots like a jewel.
What is "a fly"?
400
To help find out what a poem is trying to say about the subject, you can sometimes find meaning by looking for these:
What are "significant shifts"?
400
The following haiku was published by which famous author? Buy flowers for your date Forget-Me-Nots stink in only a day or two and that serves you right.
Who is "Mr. Freemyer"?
500
The most common meter in poetry, comprised of five unstressed/stressed syllable pairs.
What is "iambic pentameter"?
500
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" this is an example of -----?
What is "a metaphor"?
500
A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
What is "a spider"?
500
Just finding examples of the elements of style (figurative language, imagery, syntax, etc) is not enough. You must then do this with them:
What is "explain how they help create the tone and meaning of the poem".
500
What does the poem suggest about the relationship between speaker and auditor (the addressee of the poem)? Buy flowers for your date Forget-Me-Nots stink in only a day or two. And that serves you right.
What is "she was ghosting him after they went out, and it irritated the speaker"