Figurative Language
Poetic Devices
Elements of Poetry Vocab
Poetry Elements
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

The feeling the author is trying to convey.

What is mood?

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. '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

When the poet ends one line and starts another.

What is line break?

200
The emotion or feeling that the poet is getting across to the reader.
What is mood?
200
Bam! is an example of this figurative language technique.
What is onomatopeia?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300

What poetic device is used in this sentence? “Go slow over the road.”

What is assonance?

300

Words with the same ending sound.

What is rhyme?

300
What is the mood of this poem? The dark night Shadows all around Fearful sounds A high pitched screetch
What is terrifying/scary?
300
This test is lasting FOREVER! This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
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

Words or phrases that are repeated.

What is repetition.

400
What mood 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

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

What is a rhythm?

500
What is the theme implied in this poem? You make me smile like the sun, fall outta bed Sing like a bird, Dizzy in my head Spin like a record You make me smile
What is someone being in love or happy to be around another person?
500

The repetition of consonant sounds within words

What is consonance?

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