LWD LIT Devices

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What is the name of our new book?

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Long Way Down

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Who is the author of the book?

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Jason Reynolds

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Choose an example of imagery:

The chair was old,

The lightbulb was glowing,

The sky was blue,

The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.

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The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.

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Anagram

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A word made by rearranging the letters of another word

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What literary device is used in this poem?

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Repetition

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in prose.

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Symbolism

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A literary device where characters, objects, actions, or ideas are ingrained or associated with a deeper meaning beyond the literal sense.

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Which is prose? An essay or a poem?

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Essay

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What is verse?

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writing arranged with a rhythm, typically having a rhyme.

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What is a line in poetry?

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A single row of words in a poem.