One long crack in the
pavement--an endless freeway
for commuting ants
-Myra Cohn Livingston
This type of poem could best be described as...
What is a haiku
100
This type of humorous formula poetry has five lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba.
What is a limerick?
100
These are the "paragraphs" in a poem.
What are stanzas.
200
The repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
200
Nap, tap, rap, lap, map are examples of
What is rhyme?
200
Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing
-Emily Dickinson
The type of figurative language used in this poem is..
What is a metaphor?
200
This is a poem that has 4 line stanzas with various rhyme schemes.
What are quatrains.
200
When sensory details appeal to one or more of the five senses we say that a writer has used this.
What is imagery?
300
Words with the same ending sound.
What is rhyme?
300
Sally sells seashells is an example of...
What is alliteration?
300
Pictures paint a thousand words.
They are dropping like flies.
Put your thinking cap on.
Pull the wool over his eyes.
The line in this stanza include what type of figurative language?
What is idioms
300
This is a style of poetry that originated in Japan, with simple language, no rhyme and three lines.
What is a haiku?
300
This is an intentionally exaggerated figure of speech. For example: "That car goes faster than the speed of light!"
What is hyperbole?
400
This is when words, phrases or lines are repeated in a poem.
What is repetition.
400
"Your suitcase weighs a ton" is an example of
What is hyperbole?
400
The waves beside them danced;
but they outdid the sparkling waves in glee.
The type of figurative language used in these lines is..
What is personification?
400
This type of poem is written in no formal structure and without a rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
400
This is a type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as.
What is a simile?
500
This measures the rhythm, or regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, in a poem.
What is meter.
500
"My eggs stared at me" is an example of...
What is personification
500
Snow makes whiteness where it falls.
The bushes look like popcorn balls.
And places where I always play,
Look like somewhere else today.
This poem has this type of rhyme scheme.
What is aabb.
500
This is a very simple style of poem composed of two line stanzas that rhyme.