Terms / Definitions
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
What Am I?
Find that Rhyme Scheme
100

A simile.

What compares two things while using "like" or "as."

100

The three sound devices terms.

What is rhythm, rhyme, and repetition? 

100

Comparing without using "like" or "as."

What is metaphor?

100

"I am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away"

What is metaphor? 

100
The coolness of the night

Refreshes my skin.
The stars shine so bright,
Causing me to grin.

What is ABAB?
200

Repetition

What is repeating certain words or phrases over and over?

200

Use claps to help find this.

What is rhythm?

200

Extreme exaggerated statement or sarcasm. 

What is hyperbole?

200

Find what sound device this is:

I'm car sick.
               Open a window.
I'm car sick.
               Take this pill.
I'm car sick.
               Rest your eyes.

What is repetition?

200

I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them Sam I am.
I do not like them in a boat.
I do not like them with a goat.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse. 

What is AABBCC?

300

Internal rhyme.

What is a rhyme at the end of the words within the poems?

300

Find the syllables:

This class is the best!

What is five syllables?

300

Words that make sound.

BONUS for spelling it correctly.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

If you always try your best
Then you'll never have to wonder
About what you could have done
If you'd summoned all your thunder

And if your best
Was not as good
As you hoped it would be,
You still could say,
"I gave today
All that I had in me."

What is idiom? 

300

I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.

What is aabb?

400

Idiom.

What is meaning something different from what literally said?

400

Find the external rhyme:

I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.
I'm going blind in my right eye.

What is mumps and bumps, dry and eye?

400

Words that use exaggerated.

What is personification, hyperbole, and idiom.

400

If my heart could speak,
it would say to you,
"I will hold you
in my arms
forever."

What is personification? 

400

Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece as white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.

What is ABCB. 

500

Alliteration.

What is a rhyme or repeating of the same letter at the beginning of words?

500

Martin Luther King uses this in his "I have a dream" speech.

What is repetition?

500

Words dealing with sounds.

What is onomatopoeia and alliteration?

500

Bright streaks whiz through the sky.
Thunk! Whoosh!
Brightly colored explosions sizzle and
Pop, pop, pop.

What is onomatopoeia? 

500

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'ver vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a croud,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

What is ABABCC?