Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Elements of Poetry
Rhythm
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

Lines that are organized units of meaning.

What is stanzas?

100

When a poet changes one or more words in each repetition. 

What is variations?

100

Repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words.  

What is rhyme?

200

Oh, never, if I live to a million

Shall I feel such a grievous pain

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

The way the words and lines are arranged.  

What is a structure?

200

A pattern of rhythm.

What is meter?

200

Is a reference to a famous person, place, or event.

What is allusion?

300

My words are little jars

For you to take and put upon a shelf

Their shapes are quaint and beautiful

And they have many pleasant colors and lusters

What is a metaphor?

300

A particular pattern or rhyme, example: abab.

What is Rhyme Scheme?

300

A type of literature that uses sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the word in striking and imaginative ways.

What is a poetry?

300

Meter is measured in feet or units of stressed and unstressed syllables.

What is Foot/Feet?

300

Lines or group of lines that are repeated at regular intervals in a poem or song. In a refrain, the poet reminds readers and listeners of a key idea, event or image. Often, a refrain is repeated at the end of each stanza.

What is refrain?

400

All round the house is the jet-black night;

It stares through the window-pane;

It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light

What is personification?

400

Determine the rhyme scheme.

When I was down beside the sea

A wooden spade they gave to me

To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.

In every hole the sea came up, 

Till it could come no more.

What is AABCCB?

400

Poetry is divided into lines or groups of words.

What is a lines?

400

A beat created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in words.

What is rhythm?

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

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

What is personification?

500

Determine the rhyme scheme. 

A birdie with a yellow billl

Hopped upon my window sill, 

Cocked his shining eye and said:

"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!"

What is AABB?

500

The person or character who communicates the words of the poem. Poetic Language is specific, imaginative, and rich with emotion. Every form of poetry has its own structure

What is a speaker?

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 person or character who communicates the words of the poem. Poetic Language is specific, imaginative, and rich with emotion. Every form of poetry has its own structure.  

What is Speaker? 

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