Comparision between two unlike things using "like" or "as".
100
A comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
100
Tommy took two tapes to town.
What is alliteration?
100
The pattern of end rhymes found in poetry.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
A group of lines in a poem or song.
What is a stanza?
200
"I had so much homework, I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home!" What type of figurative language is used here?
What is a hyperbole?
200
“Her face is like a sunbeam,” is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a Simile?
200
When all the words start with same sound.
What is alliteration?
200
Identify the rhyme scheme for "All My Great Excuses".
I started on my homework
but my pen ran out of ink.
My hamster ate my homework.
My computer’s on the blink.
What is
A
B
A
B ?
200
A short humorous poem originating in Ireland with a AABA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
300
“The tropical storm slept for two days,” is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
300
Her shoes looked like two boats.
What is hyperbole?
300
Is a word that imitates a noise or action.
BAM!
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Name the rhyme scheme for "Today I Had a Rotten Day"
Today I had a rotten day.
As I was coming in from play
I accidentally stubbed my toes
and tripped and fell and whacked my nose.
What is
A
A
B
B ?
300
What poet wrote "Annabel Lee"?
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
You are a fountain of knowledge.
What is a metaphor?
400
Is giving human qualities, feelings, actions or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.
What is personification?
400
The bat ran into the man with a slam.
What is assonance?
400
Identify the rhyme scheme for "Stopping by Woods On a Snowy evening", by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
What is:
A
A
B
A ?
400
What is the message in "The World is Not a Pleasant Place to Be?
What is the world would be lonely without someone to share it with?
500
The sense of touch, smell, sight, sound that one gets from reading a piece of literature.
What is a imagery?
500
What is the use of words and phrases in an unusual way? Writers often use this to make their writing more colorful, powerful, and interesting. Examples include simile, metaphor, irony, and personification.
What is figurative language?
500
He clenched the straw with both teeth.
What is consonance?
500
Identify the rhyme scheme for "Fire and Ice".
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
What is
A
B
A
A
B
C
B
C
B ?
500
Name three tips for sucessfully reading a poem out loud.
What are
~ Read slowly
~ Read clearly
~ Practice
~ Pause only at punctuation - not at the end of every line
~ Discover the meaning of unfamiliar words?