Definitions
One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.
What is a homophone?
Name the figurative language: The fog sits on silence haunches.
The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
Name the two literary devices here:
So they flew through a flaw in the flue
Alliteration & homophone
What do we call a single horizontal section of poetry that spreads across only one line?
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
What is a section of a poem called?
Stanza
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Bonus: what do we call an overused one of these?
Simile
And overused simile is a cliche.
Identify the literary device Abraham Lincoln used here: government of the people, by the people, for the people,shall not perish from the earth.
What is parallelism
His repetition of "the people" at the end of each clause is an example of epistrophe which is a specific kind of parallelism
Name the figurative language: "The soft wind blew through the trees with the sweet smell of spring flowers."
What's the rhyme scheme of a limerick?
AABBA
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the literary device: the mosquitos bit, chomped and chewed every piece of exposed skin
What is parallelism
Identify the figurative language: The rain splished softly on the leaves.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: It is a million degrees outside!
Hyperbole.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"
dreary & weary are examples of what type of rhyme?
internal rhyme or middle rhyme
Language that appeals to the five senses.
Sensory language
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane, destroying everything in his path, regarding no ones feelings but his own.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What hyperbole?
Name the literary device in the last two lines:
There was a young lady of Niger
who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
with the lady inside,
and the smile on the face of the tiger.
Twist or turn
What is tone?
How the poem feels.