The figurative language found in "Becky’s beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy."
What is alliteration?
100
The figurative language in "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong."
What is simile?
100
The person who wrote The Raven
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
The person who came to talk to us about Slam Poetry
Who is Steve?
100
a type of Japanese poetry that is made up of three lines.
What is Haiku?
200
The figurative language found in: "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks."
("Watty Piper" [Arnold Munk], The Little Engine That Could)
What is onomatopoeia?
200
What is the figurative language in: Time is a thief.
What is metaphor?
200
The conflict in The Raven
What is The narrator is missing his wife Lenore and the bird is mocking him
200
"What Bearded Men Like" was the example of this kind of poem in a slam.
What is a sacrifical poem?
200
The kind of poetry tells a story with a plot, character(s), and setting
What is narrative poetry?
300
The figurative language in: "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!"
What is assonance?
300
This kind of description which appeals to one or more of the five senses
What is imagery?
300
The type of poem The Raven is
What is a narrative poem?
300
The three or four things an audience can do if they don't like a poem at a slam
What is hissing, stomping feet, snapping, and moaning?
300
humorous poems of five lines. They have definite rhythm and a rhyme pattern of aabba.
What is a limerick?
400
The figurative language in: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is personification?
400
The repeating of beginning consonant sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A version of poetry that is acted out
What is Poetry Alive (or dramatic poetry)?
400
When people perform their own poetry with expression and enthusiasm
What is a poetry slam? (or slam poetry)
400
The type of this poem:
There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
In the midst of the night
He awoke in a fright
And---good grief! It was perfectly true!
What is limerick?
500
The figurative language in: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
500
A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
What is metaphor?
500
Reading and re-reading a poem and taking it line by line to determine the meaning of the poem
What is a close read?
500
The city Slam Poetry was born in.
What is Chicago?
500
This type of poem:
Coming from the woods
A bull has a lilac sprig
Dangling from a horn