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Definitions Identify Identify
the literary device the literary device in context (1) in context (2)
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A word’s dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that a word may have.
AnswerWhat is denotation?
The general term for literacy techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
AnswerWhat is irony?
A comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unlike.
AnswerWhat is an analogy?
A set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning.
AnswerWhat is connotation?
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines.
AnswerWhat is blank verse?
“Life is a broken-winged bird”
AnswerWhat is a metaphor?
“The rain will never stop falling.”
AnswerWhat is a hyperbole?
“He hears the hum of the boy’s dream”
AnswerWhat is an onomatopoeia?
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,”
AnswerWhat is an internal rhyme?
Daily Double
“And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—”
AnswerWhat is personification?
“and he dips his wing in the orange sun rays”
AnswerWhat is imagery?
“The free bird thinks of another breezeand the trade winds soft through the sighing trees”
AnswerWhat is a couplet?
“She carries sweet scents of rain and is soft spoken.”
AnswerWhat is alliteration?
“ I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars For he must fly back to his perch and cling When he fain would be on the bough a-swing; And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars And they pulse again with a keener sting– I know why he beats his wing!
Identify The Symbol
AnswerWhat is the caged bird?
“The wind’s a little girl name Wendy. When she passes our window, she taps the pane or just looks in to see you. You see, No One is with her and she is lonely. The trees sometimes sing that and bow in respect. Last week, when you listened from the porch steps, did you notice?”Identify The Extended Metaphor
AnswerWhat is the wind?