Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100

Compares two things using "like" or "as"

What is a simile

100

What poetic device is being used below?

Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore

What is alliteration

100

A type of pome with no constraints, and is the most common type of poetry we know.

What is lyrical poetry 

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

What poetic device is being used below?

I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

What is a hyperbole

200

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? 

I heard a bird sing 

In the dark of December. 

A magical thing 

And sweet to remember. 

'We are nearer to Spring 

Than we were in September," 

I heard a bird sing 

In the dark of December.

What is ABAB ABAB

200

A form of poetry that has the following syllables 5-7-5?

What is a haiku

200

The attitude a poem implies.

What is tone

200

What is it called when two consecutive lines rhyme?

What is a rhyming couplet 

300

Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

What is a metaphor

300

What poetic device is used in this quote? 

“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,”

                                 --Langston Hughes

What is alliteration

300

A poem that tells a story.

What is a ballad

300

The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.

What is mood

300

What is the following an example of: Jumbo Shrimp

What is an oxymoron

400

What poetic device is being used below?

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 one example of personification from the excerpt below: 

"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

What poetic device is being used below?

“The moan of doves in immemorial elms;

And murmuring of innumerable bees. 

--Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is onomatopoeia

500

What is the rhyme scheme? 

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
A type of poem that is specific to (aka: about) the author of the poem. 

What is a biopoem

500

What mood is exemplified in the following quote: 

“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”

What is calm, serene, peaceful 

500

What is this an example of: 

Neptune is the god of the sea

What is a metaphor 

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