What is this: Sad Slow Snail
Alliteration
a word or an image that signifies something other than what it represents, with multiple meanings and connotations
Symbol
Raining Cats and Dogs
Idiom
5 lines, 7 lines, 5 lines
Haiku
A poem that spells out a word
Acrostic
The use of exaggeration for effect
Hyperbole
"Volleyed and thundered." - What technique?
Onomatopoeia
A pause in a line of poetry dictated not by meter but by natural speaking rhythm.
Caesura
"Jaws of death" - What technique?
Personification / Metaphor
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
Repetition
Define alliteration
the repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word in a sequence of nearby words
It was a bittersweet moment.
Antithesis
Moo, purr, quack, buzz, hiss, sizzle
Onomatopoeia
An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.
Idiom
The trees whistled as the wind blew from the south
Personification
An implied comparison between things essentially unlike
Metaphor
The repetition of identical or similar vowels
Assonance
The repetition of final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words
Consonance
Juxtaposing two opposite words to show an emphatic and dramatic contradiction
Oxymoron
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them." - This is a more specific form of repetition... what is it?
Anaphora
"The monstrous anger of the guns." - What is this from Anthem For Doomed Youth?
Personification
It’s not cold on this 40 degree day.
Understatement
The use of pleasant sounding words OR The use of words to evoke a pleasant image
Euphony