Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Highwayman Vocab
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
This window frame opens on hinges. Bess had to watch for the Highwayman through one of these.
What is a casement?
100
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
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
The sound device used in this line from "The Highwayman"
TLOT, TLOT Had they heard it?
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A type of sword brandished by the Highwayman.
What is a rapier?
200
The author's feeling toward the subject.
What is attitude?
200
A poem that contains all the elements of a short story story.
What is narrative poem?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
The sound device used in this poem:
“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
300
The large cup-shaped handle of a rapier.
What is a hilt?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
A poem that has a hidden message.
What is an acrostic?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
The sound device use to create emphasis in this poem. Hint: It is NOT rhyme.
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
What is repetition?
400
A large Spanish sailing ship. 
What is a galleon?
400
It's a shame I didn't get any mail today.
What is assonance?
400
Identify 3 examples of personification 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
The sound device used in this sentence.
He stood on the bed and sighed.
What is consonance?
500
A flood or sudden outpouring.
What is a torrent?
500
Poets use these techniques to add musical or sound effects to their poetry.
What are sound devices?
500
What is the name of the woman for whom Edgar Allan Poe wrote "A Valentine"?
Who is Frances Sargent Osgood?