What is this device?
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound when the word is spoken.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The idea that things represent other things.
What is symbolism?
The rhythmic pattern of a poetic line.
What is meter?
He is like the sun so fair.
What is a simile?
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
What is an allusion?
The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.
What is tone?
A type of poem which tells a story.
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
I am a dog.
And you are a flower.
I lift my leg up.
And give you a shower.
What is funny?
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem
What is a stanza?
Describes how word choice, subject matter, and the author's tone convey an overall feeling that characterizes the emotional landscape of a poem for readers.
What is mood?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse poetry?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.
What is sad or dreadful?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is Personification?
a figure of speech that talks about an idea by using a word that is closely related to that idea. Like a change in name. For example, referring to the President of the United States or their administration as “the White House”
What is a Metonymy?
A long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person or a group of persons.
What is an epic poem?
I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me.
What is imagery?
The day was long and hard, but I was the victor!
What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?
A short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions and feelings.
What is a lyric poem?
A figure of speech and a form of understatement in which a sentiment is expressed ironically by negating its contrary. For example,
you won't be sorry = meaning you'll be glad OR
"It's not the best weather today" *during a hurricane*
What is litotes?
Refers to a figure of speech in which the word for a part of something is used to refer to the thing itself. For example, the word hand in "offer your hand in marriage."
What is synecdoche?