Figurative Language
Figurative Language 2
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/blank verse?

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
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
200

Thump! Thump!  

What is onomatopoeia?

200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
200
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
200
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
300
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
300

I am so hungry I could eat a house.

What is a hyperbole?

300
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
300
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
300

a 5 line poem 

What is a cinquain?

400
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
400

You have a chip on your shoulder.

What is an idiom?

400

A poem that has 4 lines and could be a stanza in a poem.

What is a quatrain?

400

Don't judge a book by its cover.

What is theme?

400

Japanese poem with 5-7-5 syllables. 

What is a haiku?

500

Wordplay of 2 items that do not go together. ex. Jumbo shrimp or catfish.

What is an oxymoron?

500

What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? 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. AABB


What is a rhyme scheme?

500

A humorous 5 line poem from Ireland.

What is a limerick?

500

Tommy was smiling after he received $10 for his birthday from his grandpa. Describe the mood of this sentence. 

What is cheerful/joyful/happy?

500

Oh Captain! My Captain! is a poem about Abraham Lincoln and shows this type of poem

What is an elegy?

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