poems! Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Alliteration | Starting three or more words with the same sound. Example: The crazy crackling crops |
Assonance | A repetition of vowel sounds within syllables with changing consonants. Example: Tilting at windmills |
Cliche | An overused word or phrase. Example: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. |
Homonym | A word that has the same spelling (or different spelling but same sound) as another, but has a different meaning or origan. |
Hyperbole | A large exageration, usually used with humor. Example: The fish was a football field and a granny long. |
Idiom | A language familiar to a group of people. Example: Ya'll comin' to da party tonight? |
Metaphor | A word or phrase used to have a completely different meaning. Example: Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" being a constant reminder of his loss and not truly a raven. |
Metaphor | A word or phrase used to have a completely different meaning. Example: Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" being a constant reminder of his loss and not truly a raven. |
Onomatopoeia | A word imitating a sound. Example: 'buzz', 'moo' and 'beep' |
Penultimate syllable | The next to last syllable of a word. |
Rhyme | Similarity of sound in the last syllable. Example: Spoon and Toon |
Simile | An expression that compares one thing to another using 'like' or 'as'. Example: The milk tasted like pickles. |
Synechdoche | The metaphorical or rhetorical substitution of a whole for a part or vice versa. Example: Counting 'heads' as cattle. |
Tercet | A group of three lines, often rhyming together or with another tercet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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