Devices
The direct comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
The indirect comparison of two unlike things, often using like or as.
What is a simile?
"The stars winked in the night sky."
What is personification?
"Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft"
What is Alliteration?
The pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
When a thing, idea, or an animal is made to do something only humans can do.
What is personification?
The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
"The classroom was a zoo."
What is a metaphor?
"That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake."
What is simile?
What a two line stanza is called.
What is a couplet?
A word that imitates the sounds it represents.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect.
What is repetition?
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divides us has come. - Nelson Mandela
What is epistrophe?
"The birds twittered"
A grouping of lines, set off by a space, that can have a set pattern of meter and rhyme.
What is a stanza?
A rhetorical device involving the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
What is Anaphora?
The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity.
What is Assonance?
one fish
two fish
red fish
blue fish
What is Rhyme?
Did I stutter?
Did I stutter?
What is repetition?
What a four line stanza is called.
What is a quatrain?
The repetition of consonant sounds in closely grouped words (not only at the beginning of words or syllables, but also in the middle and at the end).
What is Consonance?
A figure of speech in which one or more words repeat at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is Epistrophe?
“Everything looked dark and bleak, everything looked gloomy, and everything was under a blanket of mist.”
What is Anaphora?
"I wish you would mash potatoes in this dish."
What is Consonance?
Mr. Piech's favorite period.
What is his planning period?