Poetry Words
Name That Device
Poems We Read
Dear Diary
Language Skills
100
A poem with lines of different lengths that usually does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
100
Words that sound the same at the end, like 'cat' and 'hat'.
What is rhyme?
100
The pattern of rhymes in a poem, for example ABC ABC.
What is a rhyme scheme?
100
When a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
What is enjambment?
100
Words that almost rhyme, like 'parish' and 'garish' in an English accent.
What is a half-rhyme?
200
'City's ceaseless crowd' - the same first sound repeated.
What is alliteration?
200
'The wind whispered through the trees.'
What is personification?
200
'Snakes slither silently' - repeated 's' sounds.
What is sibilance?
200
'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!'
What is hyperbole?
200
'Not bad at all' - saying something is good by using a negative.
What is litotes?
300
Walt Whitman's poem about a knife-grinder and his golden sparks.
What is 'Sparkles from the Wheel'?
300
The poet who wrote 'The Road Not Taken'.
Who is Robert Frost?
300
A.L. Hendricks's poem about a woman walking a hard road in Jamaica.
What is 'Road to Lacovia'?
300
In 'The Road Not Taken', the two roads stand for this in our lives.
What are choices / decisions?
300
The main theme of 'Road to Lacovia' - a woman staying strong in hard times.
What is struggle / resilience?
400
This young Dutch girl wrote a famous diary while hiding in Amsterdam in World War Two.
Who is Anne Frank?
400
The name Anne Frank gave to her diary when she wrote to it.
Who is Kitty?
400
This writer's diary describes the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Who is Samuel Pepys?
400
The Great Fire of London started in the King's baker's house on this lane.
What is Pudding Lane?
400
An online video diary.
What is a vlog?
500
Words like 'however', 'furthermore' and 'on the other hand' that link ideas.
What are connectives?
500
Words chosen to make the reader feel strong emotions, like 'chaos' or 'cruelty'.
What is emotive language?
500
Diaries are usually written from this point of view, using 'I'.
What is first person?
500
A sentence with two main clauses joined by 'and', 'but' or 'so'.
What is a compound sentence?
500
A sentence with a main clause and a subordinate clause, often using 'because' or 'although'.
What is a complex sentence?
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