Similes and Metaphors
Personification
What's that sound?
Rhyme or not
Mix It Up!
100
A simile compares two things using the words _____ or ____.
What is like or as.
100
Define personification.
What is a type of figurative language that makes an object or idea do something only a person can do.
100
Give one example of onomatopoeia.
What is ____________
100
What do you call a poem that has no rhyming?
What is Free Verse.
100
One sister for sale! One sister for sale! One crying and spying young sister for sale! What element of poetry is used in the example above?
What is repetition.
200
Tears-- inspired by grief tears that fall like rain. Identify the simile.
What is tears that fall like rain.
200
Deserted here, the old house stands in silence, asleep. What is being personified and what human action is it given?
What is an old house that stands quietly and sleeps.
200
"Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers." This is an example of which literary element?
What is alliteration.
200
line 1 I made a mechanical dragon line 2 Of bottle tops, hinges, and strings, line 3 Of thrown-away clocks and unmendable socks Identify the rhyming words
What are clocks and socks.
200
________ is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza.
300
"Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly." Identify what is being compared.
What is life without dreams and a broken-winged bird.
300
When I see a brave building straining high, and higher, hard and bright and sassy in the seasons, I think of the hands that put that strength together. What is being personified and what human trait is it given?
What is a building that is brave and sassy.
300
My brother is pounding on the door. Rap, rap, rap. "Let. Me. In." Both sounds working together in two-party harmony. What element of poetry does this poem use?
What is onomatopoeia.
300
line 1 What a day, line 2 Oh what a day. line 3 My baby brother ran away, line 4 And now my tuba will not play. line 5 I'm eight years old line 6 And turning grey, line 7 Oh what a day, line 8 Oh what a day. Which lines rhyme?
What are lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8.
300
The lesson or piece of information the poet is trying to give the reader is called ___________
What is the author's message.
400
Like a morning ghost The snow-capped Gabrieles Loom above... What is being compared?
What is the Gabriel mountains and a ghost.
400
Grandmomma's china bowl sits with its hands cupped but open. Always begging for more. What human actions or traits is given to the China bowl?
What is sitting, hands open, and begging for more.
400
Skinny McGuinn was so terribly thin that while taking his bath Sunday night, out popped the plug and slosh-swoosh and glug-glug it washed Skinny right down the drain Identify onomatopoeia in the poem.
What is popped, slosh-swoosh and glug-glug.
400
line 1 Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae, line 2 Who ate a monstrous whale? line 3 She thought she could, line 4 She said she would, line 5 So she started in right at the tail. Identify the rhyming pattern in the poem.
What is lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
400
Her mama said, "Don't eat with your fingers." "OK," said Ridiculous Rose, So she ate with her toes! What two elements of poetry can you find?
What are rhyming and alliteration.
500
Now I think of her. Memories gather 'round me like the falling leaves.
What is like how leaves fall all around, all the memories of her are coming to her mind.
500
Over the snow my creaking feet Disturbed the sleeping village street What are two example of personification?
What is feet disturbing the village and the village street that is sleeping.
500
Weaver finch Cassin's finch goldfinches house finches flit finches flit finches flit Identify the alliteration in the poem.
What is the repeated "f" sound.
500
line 1 In the undergrowth line 2 There dwells a Bloath line 3 Who feeds upon poets and tea. line 4 Luckily, I know this about him line 5 While he knows almost nothing of me. What is the pattern of rhyming?
What is lines 1 and 2 rhyme and lines 3 and 5 rhyme.
500
There's six Puerto Ricans in our class- Manny, Lourdes, Jillian, Samantha, Carlos, and Sophie. There's two Dominicans - Angel and Maritza. Gina and Cara are from Trinidad and Guy is from Jamaica. All the rest of us are from right here. What element of poetry does this poem have?
What is Free Verse.
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