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Miscellaneous
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Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
When a text makes reference to a character in history, a book, a movie or a brand.
What is Allusion?
100

Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore

What is alliteration?

100

A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur WITHIN the line.

What is Internal Rhyme?

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

"Bittersweet," "deafening silence," and "small crisis" are all examples of what?

What is Oxymoron?

200
The imitation of sounds in a text. Often the sound will mimic the action that is being performed
What is a onomatopoeia?
200

What type of rhyme is in the following stanza: Hope is a thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all?

What is Slant Rhyme?

200
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300

The caged bird in Maya Angelou's poem is an example of this.

What is Symbol?

300
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?
300

A strong, regular, and repeated pattern of movement or sound in a poem created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

What is Rhythm?

300

The order of words in a sentence.

What is Syntax?

400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400

A statement that appears to contradict itself, but upon further rumination, either reveals a deeper meaning or actually makes sense.

What is Paradox?

400
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?
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
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500

When poets direct speech to an abstract concept or a person who is not physically present.

What is Apostrophe?

500
What sound device is used in this passage? A rose grows where the bones of the crow are thrown
What is Assonance?
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 thing that provides the point of view in a text or poem. The voice of the poem or text.

Who is the speaker?