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
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
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.
What is ABAB?
200
A poem meant to be sung and tells a narrative.
What is a ballad?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process.
What is symbol?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this poem? The Monkeys
Through green and screeching noise swing the furry monkeys. They pick ticks out of their tangled wirehair munch chew eating bananas and bugs launch through trees like little fleas climb tall in the world of leaves. How I wish to swing and sway like those little monkeys
What is alliteration?
300
A poem that tells about nature.
What is a haiku?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
https://learnwithhomer.com/library/story/chicka-chicka-boom-boom/
Figurative language utilized in this children's story.
What is onomatopoeia?
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 that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 5 lines.
What is a limerick?
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
Which figurative language device is employed here?
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
What is repetition?
500
A poem containing three lines: the first composed of 5 syllables, the second composed of 7 syllables, and the third composed of 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
500
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage:
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
These are representations of this kind of figurative language.
What is irony?