1. By James Riddle

2.  End rhyme
 Slant rhyme
 Internal rhyme
 Alliteration
 Assonance
 Consonance
 Onomatopoeia
 Refrain/chorus
 repetition

3.  “Where the skies are so blue” and “Lord, I'm coming
home to you” are end rhymes.
 Why? because blue and you are both at the end of the
line and they both rhyme.
 Ha ha that rhymed too

4.  “carry me home to see my kin” and ‘‘and I think it's a
sin” are both slant rhymes.
 Why? because the kin and sin both have the same last
sound

5.  “Singing songs about the southland” is an alliteration
 Why? Because an alliteration is where a bunch of
words start with the same sound therefor
singing, songs and southland all start with the same
letter.

6.  ‘‘They pick me up when I'm feeling blue, now how
about you.” is an internal rhyme.
 Why? Because an internal rhyme is where two words
rhyme in the same line (HA HA that was an internal
rhyme right there!!!)
 Blue and you both rhymed.

7.  “Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue.
Sweet home Alabama, Lord, I'm coming home to you.”
This is the Chorus.
 Why? This is repeated after every verse.

8.  Simile
 Metaphor
 Personification
 Idiom
 Hyperbole
 Symbolism

9.  “Does your conscience bother you, tell the truth.” This
is personification.
 Why? The conscience is given human qualities.

10.  “…they pick me up when I'm feeling blue,…” This is an
idiom.
 Why? He is not literally blue. It is a figure of speech.

11.  “Big wheels keep on turning,…” This is symbolism.
 Why? It is representing life, or something that repeats
itself, like the weather for example.

12.  Visual
 Hearing
 Taste
 Touch
 Smell

13.  “…where the skies are so blue.” This is Visual Imagery.
 Why? The reason is because he seeing the sky.
 “Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her.” This is Hearing
Imagery.
 Why? The reason is because he can hear Mister Young
Singing.
 “they pick me up when I'm feeling blue,…” This is Touch
Imagery.
 Why? This could be taken literally, as something picking
him up, as in helping him up.