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100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
100
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200
What is the sound device is used in this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
What is Rhyme?
200
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
When you give human qualities to inanimate objects
What is personification?
200
When a text makes reference to a character in history, a book, a movie or a brand.
What is Allusion?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What sound device is used in this quote? Sticky with ink, the pen Carrie picked had corroded and trickled its contents on her carpet.
What is consonance?
300
Extravagant exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
300
Words that appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
300
Language that uses words or expressions that are different than the literal meaning
What is figurative language?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
What is repetition?
400
When the beginning sound of a word is repeated
What is alliteration?
400
I am so hungry I could eat a horse. This is an example of what literary device
What is hyperbole?
400
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
What sound device is used in this passage? A rose grows where the bones of the crow are thrown
What is Assonance?
500
The imitation of sounds in a text. Often the sound will mimic the action that is being performed
What is a onomatopoeia?
500
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
500
The person or think that provides the point of view in a text or poem. The voice of the poem or text.
Who is the speaker?