Rhyme/Rhyme Scheme
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Metaphors and Similes
Stanzas + Lines
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This is a word that rhymes with "effect."

What is project, object, direct, respect, select, perfect, reflect, detect...

100

This is the name of the poem who wrote "Dreams" and "Harlem"

Who is Langston Hughes?

100

She is as lazy as a couch potato is an example of a...

simile

100

This is the number of stanzas that this poem has:

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
 
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

What is two stanzas 

200

Do these words rhyme: Plan and Ham?

No they do not although they sound close 

200

This is the decade that Langston Hughes wrote "Dreams" and "Dreams Variation" in 

What is the 1920's?
200
He is a human calculator is an example of a...

metaphor 

200

This is the number of lines this poem has:

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
 
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

What is 8?
300
This is the definition of a rhyme 

To have or end with a sound that corresponds to another

300

This is where Langston Hughes was when he wrote "Dreams"

Where is Harlem?

300

In the metaphor "time is money" these two things are being compared

What is time and money 

300

This is the definition of a stanza 

What is the equivalent of a paragraph but in a poem format? What is a set of lines grouped by their pattern, rhyme scheme, or ideas?

400

This is the name of two lines back to back that rhyme with each other. 

What is a couplet? 

400

This is a subject matter that Langston Hughes wrote about in his poems?

What are the struggles of black or disenfranchised people and the idea that you should never give up on your dreams? 

400

This is what the author is trying to say in the metaphor "Life is a highway"

Life is long and winding like a highway filled with bumps and issues 

400

This is the definition of a line of poetry 

What is a group of words arranged into a row?

500

This is how you would write the rhyme scheme of the poem:

Do you like green eggs and ham?

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like green eggs and ham!

Would you like them here or there?

I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.

A

A

A

B

B

B

500

This is the name of the author of the poem "Where I'm From"?

Who is George Ella Lyon?

500

This is the name for a metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines

What is an extended metaphor?

500

This is the difference between a stanza and a paragraph 

A stanza appears in a poem and a paragraph appears in an essay 

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