the repeation of the first sounds or consonant in words close together
What is Alliteration
100
Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow
What is Rhythm
100
'Is my friend hearty,
Now I am thin and pine,
And has he found to sleep in
A better bed than mine?'
Yes, lad, I lie easy,
I lie as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead man's sweetheart,
Never ask me whose.
Is my Team Ploughing. A.E Housman
100
Anis Mojgani
What is Shake the Dust
100
Bat, Sat, Cat, Mat
What is Rhyme
200
when a words pronunciation imitates its sound
What is Onopatopoeia
200
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is Idiom
200
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
What is The Rose that Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
200
Tupac Shakur
What is The Rose that Grew from concrete
200
I told you a thousand times to stop doing that!
What is Hyperbole
300
giving lifelike qualities to inanimate objects
What is Personification
300
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
What is Alliteration
300
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.
What is Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
300
W.H. Auden
What is Funeral Blues
300
Buzz! Zip! Bang! Woof!
What is Onomatopoeia
400
exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally
What is Hyperbole
400
He is a Dog
What is Metaphor
400
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door –
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; –
This it is and nothing more."
What is The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
400
A.E. Housman
What is Is my team ploughing
400
A Comparison that does not use like or as
What is Metaphor
500
a comparison that uses “like” or “as” in the description