A direct comparison of two unlike objects using LIKE or AS.
What is a Simile?
100
Using words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
A type of writing that uses literary devices to express story, feelings and emotions.
What is a Poem?
100
I had to wait in line FOREVER for those tickets!
What is Hyperbole?
100
She wrote "Still I Rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
A direct comparison between two things, does not use LIKE or AS
What is a Metaphor?
200
Repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems.
What is Rhyme?
200
The use of an object to suggest another.
What is Symbolism?
200
The baby's skin is as smooth as silk.
What is a Simile?
200
He wrote during the poem Dream during th Harlem Renessaince in New York City.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
Giving human traits to non-living things.
What is Personification?
300
The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words.
What is Assonance?
300
A set of lines in a poem - a poetic paragraph.
What is a Stanza?
300
The cat sat on the mat and got fat.
What is Rhyme?
300
He wrote a poem using the Repetition of the word "can't" right after the shooting that which killed 9 people in a black church in Charleston, N.C.
Who is Derrick Weston Brown?
400
Using words to represent things, actions or ideas by sensory details; using description to engage the five senses of the reader.
What is Imagery?
400
A repetition of beginning sounds. My name is Annette, I come from Alabama, and I sell Apples.
What is Alliteration?
400
When a word or set of words is repeated in a poem.
What is Repetition?
400
The flower smiled at the sun.
What is Personification?
400
Kelly Norman Ellis wrote a poem about being raised by these.
What are women?
500
An obvious or intentional exaggeration.
What is a Hyperbole?
500
The repetition of a final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds, such as made and wood; blade and blood.
What is Consonance?
500
The deeper meaning of words, beyond their dictionary definitions, often based on the reader's ideas. For instance, "child" literally means a young person, but the __________ of "child" could be innocence or freedom.
What is Connotation?
500
A gross exaggeration for the effect: overstatement.
What is Hyperbole?
500
Gary Soto wrote this poem about a little boy who didn't have enough money for a candy bar, so he offered a nickel and one of these to pay for it.