Types of Poetry
Figurative Language
More Figurative Language
Elements
Name that Poem
100
A five lined poem that can follow the syllable format 2-4-6-8-2
What is Cinquain?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles.
What is Simile?
100
A repetition of consonant spunds
What is alliteration?
100
A group of words
What is a stanza?
100
Identify the title of the poem, based on the line below. Went down to the beach to play one day
What is Maggie and Milly and Molly and May?
200
A three lined poem that follows the syllable pattern 5-7-5.
What is Haiku?
200
A comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, than, and resembles.
What is a metaphor?
200
Where the sound is in the word
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Six lines in a poem
What is a sestet?
200
Identify the title of the poem, based on the line below. She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans
What is Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out?
300
The image of the poem is similar to the theme of the poem.
What is Concrete?
300
An exagerration
What is hyperbole?
300
A group of words that are repeated
What is a refrain?
300
A type of literature that express ideas, feelings, or tells a story.
What is poetry?
300
Identify the title of the poem, based on the line below. "You are old, Father William," the young man said,
What is Father William?
400
A short poem that usually is in a form of a song
What is Lyric
400
An understatement usually sarcastic
What is Litotes?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
400
This can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration or refrain.
What is rhythm?
400
Identify the title of the poem, based on the line below. She begins, and my mother joins her
What is I Ask My MOther to Sing?
500
A 14 lined poem followed by a couplet
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet
500
Stating something but meaning something else.
What is an idiom?
500
What is the statement below an example of? The man spoke to the woman as if she were the beautiful music in the wind.
What is a simile?
500
a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
What is a meter?
500
How thin and sharp and ghostly white
What is Winter Moon?
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