Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Finish that line...
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

Finish this line from Emily Dickinson... Hope is a thing with ______.

What is feathers?

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

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. 

What is ABAB?

200

Finish this line from Shel Silverstein... I cannot go to _____ today said little Peggy Ann McKary.

What is school?

200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
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
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “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

Finish this line from Langston Hughes... Well son, I'll tell you life for me ain't been no crystal _______.

What is stair?

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

Finish this line from Darren Sardelli...
My doggy ate my essay. He picked up all my mail. He cleaned my dirty closet and dusted with his _____.

What is tail?

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

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

Finish this line from Maya Angelou...
Panthers in the park, Strangers in the dark,
No, they don't __________ me at all.

What is frighten?

500

Based on these lines, what is the mood of this poem? Bad dogs barking loud
Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn't frighten me at all.

What is bold or defiant?

500

A poem that tells a story.

What is a narrative?

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