When there is a change in tone or voice of the speaker during a poem, there is a
What is shift?
100
"The wind tickled my cheeks." What kind of figurative language does the author use?
What is personification?
100
I found a book of poems/
I brought the book to school/
And every time I looked at it/
I giggled like a fool
What is ABCB?
200
Repetition of beginning sounds, whether consonants or vowels.
What is alliteration?
200
Listening to Justin Bieber sing is like hearing a voice from heaven.
What is a simile?
200
If I said it once, I said it a thousand times… This type of figurative language is called...
What is hyperbole?
200
The kind of description which appeals to one or more of the five senses is called
What is imagery?
200
How dry I am, how wet I’ll be/
If I don’t find the bathroom key./
I found the key, but it’s too late./
I just missed my bathroom date.
What is AABB?
300
Poetry without a specific meter; often has incorrect grammar or punctuation
What is free verse?
300
As phony as a three-dollar bill
What is a simile?
300
This type of poem tells the story of an event in the form of a poem. There is a strong sense of narration, characters, and plot.
What is a narrative poem?
300
"White water is washing away" is an example of
What is alliteration?
300
Bee, be, B,/
I’d rather climb a tree,/
than learn to spell,/
the same old word,/
not just one way, but three
What is AABCA?
400
A poem whose name is a combination of the Spanish and French word for five; a five line stanza
What is a cinquain?
400
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
What is a metaphor?
400
Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem.
In certain types of poems, they are the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
You might think of them as the paragraphs of a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
The placing of words with similar end sounds reasonably close together to emphasize the similarity of their sounds. It usually occurs at the end of lines, but it may occur within a line of poetry.
What is rhyme?
400
Have you ever heard the story/
Of Mrs. J. J. Brown?/
How she became a legend/
When the ship was going down?
What is ABCB?
500
A poem with only two lines :)
What is a couplet?
500
When I saw Mrs. Rist for the first time, my heart melted like a candy bar in summer.
What is simile?
500
"The world is your oyster." The author uses the figurative language technique called ...
What is metaphor?
500
The tall kid…/
He swings his fist with his hurricane force./
A torrential spray of blood/
Explodes from the smaller boy’s nose/
And covers the tiled floor....What type of figurative language does the poet use?
What is hyperbole?
500
My baby brother is so small,/
He hasn’t even learned to crawl./
He’s only been around a week,/
And all he seems to do is bawl/
and wiggle, sleep…and leak.