What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
The Weird Ones
Types of Poetry
TICSFITS
100
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
100
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
100
A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound when the word is spoken
What is onomatopoeia?
100
poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
100
The first step which gives you an idea of the poem's content
What is title?
200
She is like the sun so fair.
What is a simile?
200
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
200
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
Usually a short poem which expresses an emotion, idea, or describes a scene
What is a lyric poem?
200
The problem the poet or character has
What is the issue?
300
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
300
The monkey screamed at me; he got out of his car and screamed at me!
What is funny or humourous?
300
A reference to something famous
What is allusion?
300
A Japanese poem written in three lines
What is a haiku?
300
A graphic organizer which helps one analyze poetry
What is TICSFITS?
400
It's raining cats and dogs!
What is idiom?
400
Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.
What is sad or depressing or dreadful?
400
A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem
What is refrain?
400
Does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is free verse?
400
When you search for allusions or other connections to your experience
What is familarity?
500
"The eerie silence was shattered by her scream."
What is personification?
500
The day was long and hard, but I was the victor!
What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?
500
The repetition of sounds WITHIN a word, creating lines that ALMOST rhyme...but not quite.
What is assonance?
500
five line poem containing 22 syllables
What is a cinquain?
500
The theme of the work
What is speaker's statement/universal truth?
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