What is this device?
What is the mood?
Keywords
Figurative Language
Know Your Definitions
100

Peter piper picked a peck of peppers

What is alliteration?

100
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
100

One of the main ideas or universal message of a story.

What is theme?

100

The bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.

What is metaphor?

100

The way the author feels about the subject they are writing about.

What is tone?

200

On and on! For how long must this go on?

What is a repetition?

200
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
200

The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.

What is the rhyme scheme?

200

The book was the heaviest thing in the world.

What is hyperbole?

200

The way a poem or story makes the reader feel.

What is the mood?

300

The battle lastest until twenty past ten.

What is consonance?

300

A monkey drove by honking at me; I was so distracted I didn't see the banana peel on the ground and slipped!

What is funny or humourous?

300
The repetition of beginning sound in atleast 2 or more words.
What is alliteration?
300

Boom! On went the thunder.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

When a word or phrase is used multiple times in a poem.

What is repetition?

400

The dark blue fabric felt so soft and made a slight scratching sound as I ran my hand over it.

What is imagery?

400

Rain began to fall as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.

What is sad or depressing or dreadful?

400
Hints that tell what may happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
400
Hey diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
What is personification?
400
Words and phrases that help the reader visualize, or imagine what is happening, in literature.
What is imagery?
500
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
What is assonance?
500

The game was long and hard, but it was all worth it because, in the end, I was victorious!

What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?

500

The repetition of vowel sounds WITHIN a word, creating lines that ALMOST rhyme...but not quite.

What is assonance?

500

The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are near one another

What is consonance?

500
When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.
What is symbolism?