A literary device that compares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
What is the literary device used in the following passage?
"As she got out of the car, the silver plate slid from her lap and rang like a dying bell against the asphalt"
What is a simile?
100
When writers use words to evoke the five senses, they are using _______________.
What is imagery?
200
A literary device that gives human characteristics to non-human things (animals, things, ideas).
What is personification?
200
Which literary device is in all caps:
"I'm going to KICK UP MY HEELS over spring break."
What is an idiom?
200
Seriously silly students study science and social studies . . . sort of.
~ is an example of what literary device?
What is alliteration?
300
Words that suggest or reflect the sound they make.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Which literary device is represented in this sentence:
His cheeks were red apples coming in out of the cool, autumn air.
What is a metaphor?
300
Maya Angelou and this fearless leader from South Africa have had common life experiences and influences in the world.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
An extreme exaggeration to emphasize an idea or meaning.
What is hyperbole?
400
Which literary device is represented in the following lines from a poem:
"The horses begin to run, and the fields are full of happy thunder."
What is personification?
400
The message, moral or main idea of a story or poem is called the ________.
What is theme?
500
A group of two or more lines of poetry in regular patterns of length, rhythm and often rhyme scheme; also considered a "paragraph in poetry."
What is a stanza?
500
In Maya Angelou's poem, "Caged Bird," the caged bird is a _________________ for people with limited to no freedoms.
What is a metaphor?
500
"To the student body at large, Raymond Studemacher did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door."
~ is an example of which literary device?