Devices and Machines
What device is this?
An inhuman object/thing gets human characteristics e.g. the flowers danced in the wind.
What device is this? A device where one thing is compared to another thing using "like" or "as".
Simile.
This kind of poem tells a story.
Narrative poem.
She is a snake.
This is an example of...
Metaphor.
True/false? All words need a vowel.
True.
What devices is present here?
OFFICER: The victims were dismembered and sacrificed on an altar made of antlers.
DETECTIVE: Dear God.
OFFICER: Most likely, yes.
Pun.
What word in the following sentence needs a punctuation mark in order to make it grammatically correct? “Its going to be sad if our team loses the football game tonight.”
Apostrophe in 'Its'.
This kind of poem requires all words at the end of each line to rhyme.
Monorhyme.
That workout was so exhausting -- my feet's gonna fall off! This is an example of...
Hyperbole.
What is the main character of a story called?
The protagonist.
This device is the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.
It can also be understood as breaking up a sentence into multiple lines.
Enjambment.
They are letters that make us open our vocal track to create sounds. Every language has different ones, but "A, E, I, O, and U" are examples of this in English.
Vowels.
This kind of poem has the first letter of every line form a word.
Dreaming
Of brown fluffy fur
Good boys and girls that fetch tennis balls
Something everyone should have
Acrostic poem.
This is like beat in poems. Every word has at least one of these. "Beautiful" has 4. "Bananas" has 3. "Apple" has 2. "Pot" has 1.
What is a syllable?
A literary device that involves repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines. The repetition usually occurs at the beginning of these structures.
Anaphora.
This device involves a common saying or phrase whose meaning cannot be understood by simply looking at the meaning of the individual words.
e.g. "break a leg", "raining cats and dogs", "let the cat out of the bag"
Idiom
This poem requires:
-12 lines of 60 syllables
-3 stanzas; 8,4,4,4 syllables in each stanza with the following rhyming scheme: AABB, CCDD, EEFF.
-iambic rhythm
What is a minute?
"Tomorrow we will be downsizing our department -- I'm afraid we will have to let you go."
What is an example of euphemism?
What are the characteristics of a poem?
Must be in lines
Must have words
What kind of rhythm is present in this passage?
"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene..."
Iambic rhythm.
*SPLAT*
The pancake Shelly threw stuck itself onto the ceiling.
SPELL THE DEVICE.
What is an example of onomotopeoia?
This kind of poem:
-is written in quatrains (stanzas of 4 lines each)
-has a repeating line at the end of each stanza
-each line has just 8 syllables.
Kyrielle.
List all devices (4 minimum) present in this passage:
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
Assonance, consonance (alliteration), rhyme, hyperbole
Define each of the following:
Subject, predicate, independent clause, dependent clause
Subject: the thing that the clause or sentence is about.
Predicate: the action that the thing in the clause or sentence is doing.
Independent clause: a group of words that can stand by itself as a sentence.
Dependent clause: a group of words that cannot stand by itself as a sentence.