Language Matters

"Her papers crinkled as the wind carried them away."

CRINKLED is an example of...

• anecdote

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• mood

"I never knew Nate would nominate her."

In this sentence, I see...

• repetition

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

"The coffee spilled, hot, hot, hot on my lap."

In this sentence, I see...

• repetition

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

"Definitely maybe" is an example of...

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• simile

When what we expect to happen is opposite from what actually happens, it is called...

• irony

• drama

• simile

• personification

A short story that is told to reveal something about a character or situation, it is called...

• a hyperbole

• an idiom

• an anecdote

• alliteration

"Her eyes were like the sea, so open and beautiful" is an example of...

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

• mood

"When pigs fly" is..

• mood

• an anecdote

• a theme

• an idiom

Poetry is writing that...

• always rhymes

• expresses feeling

• always has a pattern

• is written in paragraphs

When a poet gives human qualities to things that aren't human, it is called...

• irony

• personification

• alliteration

• explicit writing