Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Voice
Miscellaneous
100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
What poetic device is at work in the following line: Ducks danced delightfully on the pool deck!
What is alliteration?
100
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern, in rhythm, rhyme scheme, or line length.
What is free 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
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 four lined poem with a specific rhyming pattern.
What is a quatrain?
200
The author's attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200

The appearance of words on a page.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is form?

300
You are a shining star!
What is a metaphor?
300

What poetic sound tool is used in this quote? 

Try as I might, the kite did not fly.

What is assonance? 

(repetition of the long I sound)

300

The poem takes the form of the subject it is about.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is a shape poem?

300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
Poetry is written to speak to these parts of the reader.
What is the heart and mind?
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, or rhythm?
400
A type of poetry that is written entirely in the voice of the object it is about.
What is a persona?
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
Words whose sound suggest their meaning.
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
This type of poetry is similar to a haiku, but has a 5,7, 5,7,7 syllable pattern in each line.
What is a tanka?
500
Word specially selected to create an image in a person's head.
What is sensory language/ imagery?
500

Entire lines of poetry that repeat in poetry.


What is a refrain?

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