Literary Devices Game

The big black bear banged blandly on the bark.

She was drowning in a sea of her own despair.

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Bells poem “ Keeping time, time, time”

The birds tweet in chipper chatter outside the window.

Poems have a speaker. Often, the speaker is the poet. Other times, the speaker can take on the voice of someone else.

Round and round she ran until she realized she was running round and round.

A poem has to have a specific rhyme scheme.

The car woke up with a grumble.

The rich, warm smell of baking chocolate chip cookies reminded him of the soft smiling face of his grandmother.

The road was a ribbon stretching across the desert.

His heart was as heavy as lead, weighed down by the memory of what he’d done.

This house is as clean as a whistle.

Belize is a melting pot.

If I take another step, my feet will fall off.

His eyes were as blue as the sky.

"And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

The moon yanked a blanket of silver light over the forest.

I told you to do the dishes a million times.

The stars danced happily in the night sky.

The white witch wanted to write a new spell.