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What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
The Weird Ones
Rhyme Scheme
Know Your Definitions
100
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
100
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
100
A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound when the word is spoken
What is onomatopoeia?
100

What is the rhyme scheme?

I shot an arrow into the air

It fell to  earth, I knew not where

For so swifitly it flew, the sight

Could not follow in its flight

AABB

100
The giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits.
What is personification?
200
She is like the sun so fair.
What is a simile?
200
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
200
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200

What is the rhyme scheme?

Hey, diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over

the moon

AABC

200
The emotional effect of a poem or a story.
What is the mood?
300
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
300
The monkey screamed at me; he got out of his car and screamed at me!
What is funny or humourous?
300

The repetition of beginning sound in at least 2 or more words.

What is alliteration?

300

AABB means

lines 1 and 2 rhyme

300
The comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other.
What is an analogy?
400
The trees were as tall as skyscrapers!
What is hyperbole?
400
Rain fell 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

ABABCD means

lines 1 and 3 rhyme

lines 5 and 6 do not rhyme with lines 1,3 or 2,4

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 day was long and hard, but I was the victor!
What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?
500

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

What is assonance?

500

What poetic technique does the poet use in this stanza to reveal the problem of the poem?

Today I lost my homework.

It just vanished into thin air.

No matter where I searched,

It simply wasn’t there.

rhyme scheme - ABCB

problem - lost homework

The poet uses an ABCB rhyme scheme to emphasize that the speaker's homework cannot be found.

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