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Terminology
What Am I? (NOT imagery!)
Define Me
Give Me an Example
Grab Bag
100
Language that appeals to our senses
What is imagery?
100
I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills
What is simile?
100
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things.
100
Alliteration (using at least 4 words!)
What is...Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers?
100
What is the rhyme scheme in the following stanza? Seeing the snowman standing all alone In dusk and cold is more than he can bear. The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare A night of gnashings and enormous moan. His tearful sight can hardly reach to where The pale-faced figure with bitumen eyes Returns him such a God-forsaken stare As outcast Adam gave to paradise.
What is ABBABCBC?
200
A figure of speech which uses deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
200
I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us-don’t tell! They’d banish us you know. (Hint: not rhyme)
What is repetition?
200
Stanza
What is one of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines?
200
Idiom
What is...a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?
200
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ''Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and nothing more.' What was the speaker doing before he nodded off?
What is reading a book?
300
A concrete thing used to suggest something larger and more abstract.
What is a symbol?
300
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call. (Hint: not alliteration, assonance, or consonance)
What is cacophony?
300
Tone
What is the reflection of an author's attitude toward his or her subject?
300
Onomatopoeia
What is...the leaky faucet was drip, drip, dropping. Plop!
300
As a child You have plenty of time and energy But no money! As an adult You have plenty of money and energy But no time! As you grow old You have plenty of time and money But no energy! This poem is titled "The _______ of Life"
What is irony?
400
The close repetition of middle vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
400
Counting both feet, I have ten toes, They're not lady toes, they're men toes. And I keep them as mementoes, For I love them tenderly...
What is pun?
400
Consonance
What is the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds?
400
Personification
What is...the wind whispered in the willows as it gently brushed my check with her delicate fingers?
400
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chilliest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. What two things are being compared in this extended metaphor?
What is hope and a bird?
500
Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
What is rhyme?
500
“And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each.”
What is denotation?
500
Enjambment
What is an incomplete syntax at the end of a line, where meaning runs over from one line to the next, without terminal punctuation?
500
Cliché
What is...I'm looking for someone tall, dark, and handsome?
500
A Question A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth. What is the symbolic question that Robert Frost is asking?
What is...is everything in life worth it, or should you not have been born?