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. 

'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," 

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

What is AAAA?

200

Two lines that have the same end rhyme.

What is a couplet?

200

The Tortoise and the Hare.

What is the theme, slow and steady wins the race? 

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 tools are used in this quote? There are two!  “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/Personification?

300

A poem that tells a story.

What is a Ballad?

300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300

One line of words used in poetry.

What is a verse?

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 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
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

I saw two seagulls,

And a red bird in a tree

waiting there for spring

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

The wind went whistling through the woods. Why did the author use alliteration to describe the wind? 

A. It is pretty.

B. It gives the reader a sense of how the wind sounded and moved.

C. The author used it to be dramatic but it wasn't really needed.

D. Makes the verse more vivid and lively.

 

What is B or D?

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