They put me in the oven to bake.
Me, a deprived and miserable cake.
Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.
Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.
What is Rhyme
100
“You scared me to death.”
What is Figurative Language
100
uses words exactly according to their proper meanings.
What is Literal Language
100
a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word
What is a syllable
100
a simple traditional song or poem for children.
What is Nursery Rhyme
200
"My mouth was as dry as a bone".
What is Simile
200
“The old man waited for Death to come to him.”
What is Figurative Language
200
uses words deviating from their proper definitions in order to achieve a more complicated understanding or heightened effect.
What is Figurative Language
200
the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
What is meter
200
a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because of alliteration or a slight variation of consonant sounds
What is a tongue twister
300
"The World is my oyster"
What is Metaphor
300
The hot flames roasted the fibers of the asparagus until it had dark grill marks.
What is Literal Language
300
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration
300
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
What is simile
300
Tongue twisters make use of what litary device for their effect?
What is alliteration
400
"We're up, wide-eyed and wondering while we wait for others to waken".
What is alliteration
400
I just ate a million cupcakes
What is Figurative Language
400
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is Rhyme
400
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What is Onomatopeia
400
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a Haiku
500
splish-splash downhill
What is Onomatopeia
500
Love: a great interest and pleasure in something.
What is Literal Language
500
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is Metaphor
500
a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
What is Iambic
500
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
This is an example of what kind of meter?