Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
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
Poems that are funny with a set rhyme scheme of AABBA.
What is limerick?
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 five line poem containing 22 syllables.
What is a cinquain?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form
What is poetry?
300
The following is an example of what? "My fingers are an ice cube"
What is a metaphor?
300
A phrase repeated regularly in a poem
What is refrain?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
Language that communicates ideas beyond the meaning of the word or phrase
What is figurative language?
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
A type of poetic form where the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.
What is concrete poems?
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
The following is an example of what? "This will be a piece of cake"
What is an idiom?
500
The following is an example of what poetic device? "There once was a Martian named Zed With antennae al over his head. He sent out a lot Of di-di-dash-dot But nobody knows what he said
What is rhythm?
500
The following is an example of what type of poem? "Sunflowers in bloom Apples grow in great clusters Summer is now near"
What is a haiku poem?
500
What type of mood has the poet created? “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
What is an unhappy mood?
500
There are many reasons people write poetry, what are they?
What is to set a mood, tell a story, to say what they can't say out loud, to share ideas, to express feelings
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