Figurative Language I
Identify the Poem
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Figurative Language II
100
A 3 line Japanese poem about nature which uses 5 syllables for the first line, 7 syllables for the second, and 5 for the third
What is haiku?
100
"It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches."
What is "Fog"?
100
Proud
What is haughty?
100
A subdivision of an army
What is brigade?
100
Comparison of one thing to another using like or as
What is simile?
200
Human characteristic is given to an animal or object
What is personification?
200
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
What is "Sonnet 18"?
200
One who mocks
What is scoffer?
200
Tomb or monument
What is sepulcher?
200
Regular pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line where each rhyme is assigned a lower case letter
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Comparison of one thing to another without using like or as
What is metaphor?
300
"See how he dives from the rocks with a zoom!"
What is "Seal"?
300
Made a mistake
What is blundered?
300
To raise or tip one's hat
What is doffed?
300
Division within a poem, much like a paragraph in a story
What is stanza?
400
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
400
"I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea."
What is "Annabel Lee"?
400
Paying customers
What are patrons?
400
Face
What is visage?
400
A word that imitates sounds
What is onomotopeia?
500
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep."
What is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
500
Strange or odd
What is queer?
500
Hind quarters of an animal
What is haunches?
500
Writing that is not poetry, drama, or song
What is prose?
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