Figurative Language
Types of Poetry
Name that poet turned musician
Movie Songs
Poetry Trivia
100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
100

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant.

Who is Lana Del Rey?

100

This movie made famous "My Heart Will Go On".

What is Titanic?

100

The Folger Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., is home to large collection of printed works by this Bard of English poetry and plays.

Who is William Shakespeare?

200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200

A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.

What is an ode?

200

Stefanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta.

Who is Lady Gaga?

200

This movie made famous "A Whole New World."

What is Aladdin?

200

This American poet, author of The Raven, is considered to be the "Father of the short story."

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

300

A direct comparison of two unlike things (not using "like" or "as.")

What is a metaphor?

300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300

Kathryn Elizabeth Hudson.

Who is Katy Perry?

300

This movie made famous the song "Cups."

What is Pitch Perfect?

300

Located within the Irish province of Munster, this city in Ireland is also a type of five-line poem that famously follows an AABBA rhyming scheme.

What is Limerick?

400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost is this type of poem.

What is an Ode?

400

Christopher Francis Edward Breaux

Who is Frank Ocean?

400

This soundtrack included "The Imperial Attack" and "Rescue of the Princess."

What is Star Wars?

400

In a famous poem, Joyce Kilmer writes, "I think that I shall never see / A poem as lovely as _________" this type of natural object.

What is "a tree"?

500

Bang; crash; shloup; kerchunk

What is Onomatopoeia?

500

Hickory dickory dock

The mouse ran up the clock

The clock struck one

The mouse ran down

Hickory dickory dock

What is a Limerick? A A B B A

500

Destiney Hope

Who is Miley Cyrus?

500

This movie made famous "Circle of Life."

What is The Lion King?

500

Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal is based on 13th century German poem about the title Knight of the Round Table and his search for this sacred object.

What is The Holy Grail?

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