Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
100
An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. Example: It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an Idiom?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200
Repeating consonant sounds anywhere in words Example: "silken, sad, uncertain, rustling.."
What is Consonance?
200
A poem written in 3 lines 5 syllables 7 syllables 5 syllables
What is a Haiku?
200
Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
What is Hyperbole?
200
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
What is soliloquy?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words Example: "If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.."
What is assonance?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
What is repetition?
400
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
400
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
400
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
Words that imitate the sound that they are naming.
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
A poem in which the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.
What is a Concrete Poem?
500
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
500
What form of poetry is this? Why?
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.
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