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Figurative Language & Poetic Devices

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Review key figurative language and poetic devices for middle school ELA. Built for Grades 6-9. 25 ready-to-play clues, no prep needed. This is a Grades 6–9 English / ELA review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Comparisons, Sound Devices, Rhyme & Meter, Imagery & Meaning, Figures of Speech.

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  • Comparisons

    Which device uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things?

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    Simile

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  • Sound Devices

    What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words?

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    Alliteration

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  • Rhyme & Meter

    What do we call the pattern of end rhymes labeled with letters?

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    Rhyme scheme

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  • Imagery & Meaning

    What is language that appeals to the five senses called?

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    Imagery

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  • Figures of Speech

    What is giving human qualities to nonhuman things called?

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    Personification

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Comparisons

$100 — Which device uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things?
Simile
$200 — Which device makes a direct comparison without "like" or "as"?
Metaphor
$300 — Name the device: "The classroom was a zoo."
Metaphor
$400 — What do we call a comparison that continues through several lines?
Extended metaphor
$500 — What term names a comparison that shows relationships, often in pairs?
Analogy

Sound Devices

$100 — What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words?
Alliteration
$200 — What do we call words that imitate natural sounds, like buzz or clang?
Onomatopoeia
$300 — What is the repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words?
Assonance
$400 — What is the repetition of consonant sounds within or at word ends?
Consonance
$500 — What is rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry?
Internal rhyme

Rhyme & Meter

$100 — What do we call the pattern of end rhymes labeled with letters?
Rhyme scheme
$200 — What is a pair of successive rhyming lines with the same meter?
Couplet
$300 — What is a stanza of four lines called?
Quatrain
$400 — What metrical foot is unstressed followed by stressed?
Iamb
$500 — What do we call a line with five iambs?
Iambic pentameter

Imagery & Meaning

$100 — What is language that appeals to the five senses called?
Imagery
$200 — What is the feeling or atmosphere a reader gets from a text?
Mood
$300 — What is the author’s attitude toward the subject called?
Tone
$400 — What is an object or action that stands for a deeper idea?
Symbol
$500 — What is the central message or life lesson of a work?
Theme

Figures of Speech

$100 — What is giving human qualities to nonhuman things called?
Personification
$200 — What is an extreme exaggeration used for effect?
Hyperbole
$300 — What is a common phrase whose meaning differs from its words?
Idiom
$400 — What device pairs contradictory terms, like "jumbo shrimp"?
Oxymoron
$500 — What is a brief reference to a well-known person, place, or work?
Allusion

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