Figurative Language
A random mixture
Vocabulary
More Figurative Language
Poems
100

BAM

POW

DING DONG

What is an onamotapia? 

100

5 senses that help with IMAGERY

What is: see, hear, smell, taste, feel

100

A grouped set of writing in a poem. (usually separated by a line)

What is a stanza?

100

The early bird gets the worm.

Proverb/adage

100

This poem is in the shape of a diamond

What is a diamante?

200

When you compare 2 unlike things using the words "like" or "as".

What is a similie?

200

A poem about another person

What is a Bio Poem?

200

A line or phrase that is repeated in a poem

What is a refrain?


200

Drenched in rain, the shivering brown dog barked on the wooden porch.


What is this an example of?

What is imagery? 

200

This poem is a tribute to either a person or thing. Can be funny or serious. Usually quite long.

What is an Ode poem?

300

Proverbs/Adages

What are wise words of wisdom that give advice?

300

The rhyme pattern of this poem is:

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—

(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I’ve got it right.)
Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;

The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I’d better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)

AABB

CCDD

EEFF

300

The size of the stanza in this poem:

I'm hiding, I'm hiding,

And no one knows where;

For all they can see is my

Toes and Hair!

What is a quatrain?
300

Metaphor

What is directly comparing two unlike things


(without the use of "like" or "as")

300

This is an example of what poem:


Coffee from Dunkin

It can be made iced or hot

Delicious liquid

What is a Haiku?

400

Eidan found himself in a pickle.

An idiom

400

London is a Rockstar!

What is a metaphor?

400

An example of this structure would be:

AABBAABB

What is a rhyme pattern?

400

The homework grew legs and walked away.

What is personification?
400

The rhyme pattern of a Limerick poem

What is AABBA?

500

An example of a HYPERBOLE

Answers vary:

My head hurts so bad that it is going to explode.

500

FUN RANDOM FACT!!!!

This celebrity is Miss T's favorite singer

What is either:

a. Harry Styles

b. Taylor Swift

500
When certain syllables are accented, while other syllables remain unaccented.

What is rhythm? 

500

The cool caterpillar creeped and crawled out of his cacoon onto the car.

What is an alliteration

500

Line 1 - A noun

Line 2 - 2 adjectives

Line 3 - -ing verbs

Line 4 - A 4 word phrase

Line 5 - A synonym for line 1

What is a cinquain
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