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 ABAB ABAB?
200
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
What type of poem is this?
What is a shape poem.
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote?
“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?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
What is assonance?
what is repeating vowel sounds.
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
What poetic device is being used here?
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, be
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
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.
What is a ballad?
500
What is the theme?
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;
beauty and perfection are fleeting, emphasizing that nothing can remain in its prime forever.
Everything follows the natural cycle of growth and decay, illustrating how everything in nature must eventually change.
The poem carries a wistful tone, recognizing the beauty of golden moments while mourning their inevitable end
500
What form of poetry is this? Why?
There once was a time In years gone by Long before the automobile We walked, we rode A bike or a horse Now just sit there at the wheel So treat this friend Like one of the family You will never ever go wrong Her engine will purr Her tires will sing A happy little motoring song!
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.