Recognizing Devices
All the alligators ate asparagus.
What is Alliteration?
What is Asyndeton?
The most powerful man on Earth had trouble talking about his feelings
A metaphor that uses 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
Adjective(s) in this sentence: The whale is far too large to fit in the boat.
What is 'large?'
What is rhyme?
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
What is chiasmus
The night is darkest just before the dawn
A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thinking in order to show or suggest that they are similar
Metaphor
Nouns in this sentence: Matt Lewis--the man, the myth, the legend-- fainted at the sight of the woman.
What are Matt Lewis, man, myth, legend, and woman.
A traffic jam on your way to a meeting with your boss about being punctual.
Irony
Jack and everything in his fridge expired last week.
What is zeugma
After a man gets his arm cut off in a battle, he says "It's just a flesh wound"
Meiosis/Understatement
A description using two opposite ideas to create an effective description, such as "deafening silence."
What is an oxymoron?
Name the adverb(s) in this sentence: Alice ate in front of the man, quickly, and very cruelly, despite his hunger.
What are very, cruelly, and quickly.
Live, Laugh, Love
Asyndeton
Offering a hand in marriage.
What is synecdoche
"Oh gosh, rough day," says the man seeing a mushroom cloud in the distance
What is meiosis?
A common expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words, but must be learned as a whole.
What is an idiom?
Name the prepositions in this sentence: Under the bright blue sky, the soccer players ran towards the net and right then, I realized that I found this game boring.
Apostrophe
I'd rather have blood in my stool than stool in my blood
What is chiasmus
Excited at his luck in winning the raffle, Shaq was told that he had won a smart car.
Irony
Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five senses
What is imagery?
Name the common nouns in this sentence: Erik Langston, the author, wrote a book with a terrible title: The Calamaty Fo-Famaty.