She was breathtakingly beautiful, but he knew that she was forbidden fruit.
What is an allusion?
100
She's a butterfly still in her cocoon
What is metaphor?
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickeled peppers.
What is an alliteration?
100
His temper boiled over
What is a metaphor?
100
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
200
The tree limb grabbed jacket when I walked by.
What is Personification?
200
That car was as fast as lightnening.
What is a Simile?
200
I must be cruel to be kind. ~ William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
What is a paradox?
200
"I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth." ~ Senator Barack Obama, speech at a fund-raiser.
What is allusion?
200
Music is my soul.
What is metaphor?
300
He's like Einstein smart.
What is allusion?
300
"Stop! Don't answer that door!" the lady yelled at the T.V.
What is dramatic irony?
300
I have a ton of homework.
What is a hyperbole
300
Break a leg.
What is an idiom?
300
You must make war to have peace.
What is Paradox?
400
The robber broke into the police department.
What is situational irony?
400
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom? (or a hyperbole)
400
•What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young. ~ George Bernard Shaw
What is a paradox?
400
"Moses supposes his toeses are roses."
What is assonance?
400
I was so embarrassed I thought I might die!
What is hyperbole?
500
Hold your tongue
What is an Idiom?
500
In Anne Frank, Mr. Frank told Mr. Van, "We're going to be liberated! This is a time to celebrate!" when they were in the Secret Annex before they wen't to the concentration camps.
What is Dramatic Irony?
500
the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain — Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"
What is Assonance?
500
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning -- Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"