"The Hill We Climb": sound and meaning review

"The Hill We Climb"

sound and meaning review

Multiple Select

Identify the sound devices in "Parting is such sweet sorrow.” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatpoeia

• rhyme

Multiple Select

Identify the sound devices in “The crumbling thunder of seas…” (Robert Lewis Stevenson, “The Feast of Famine”)

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatpoeia

• rhyme

Multiple Select

Identify the sound devices in

“Trouble

Was there slapping a blackjack

Against an open palm.

(Yusef Komunyakaa, "Slam, Dunk, Hook")

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatpoeia

• rhyme

Multiple Select

Identify the sound devices in "Bought tickets to see me kick it and wasn't late" (LL Cool J; “Ahh, Let’s Get Ill”)

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatpoeia

• rhyme

Multiple Select

Identify the sound devices in “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side.” (Poe, "Annabel Lee")

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatpoeia

• rhyme

Sound devices

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance (and sibilance)

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme (end, internal, exact, approximate)

• rhyme scheme

• repetition

Poll

Are you comfortable with these sound devices?

• yeah

• nah

Poll

If "nah," which sound devices will you need more help with?

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme or rhyme scheme

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language device in "My mom’s words echo in my head and if I let go I’m dead." (Nas)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language device in

"An emerald is as green as grass,

A ruby red as blood;

A sapphire shines as blue as heaven"

(Christina Rossetti)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language device in "Shadows hold their breath" (Emily Dickinson)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language device in "We are the water, not the hard diamond, / the one that is lost, not the one that stands still." (Jorge Luis Borges)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language device in "I am music." (Common)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Figurative language

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Poll

How about those four elements of figurative language? (Mark any you STILL NEED HELP with.)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole